Tom Heinsohn Quotes

• In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Basketball, Team, Differences

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• About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you dont have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Basketball, Moving, Thinking

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• I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Trying, Done, Emotion

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• He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'

  Tom Heinsohn

  Baloncesto, Deportes, Diversión

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• My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Mother, College, Thinking

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• If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Basketball, Nba, Beats

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• Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Team, Men, Nba

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• La radio hablada en Boston es brutal, y creo que parte de lo que pasa es que la gente, mientras va y viene del trabajo, empieza a escuchar a estos imbéciles, y digo imbéciles porque no creo que sepan de lo que hablan y sólo sirven algunas cosas como controversia para poder vender el programa a los patrocinadores.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Thinking, Boston, Talking

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• What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Baloncesto, Correr, Equipo

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• Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Memories, Men, Special

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• Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Cheer, Hands, Hook

  "Boston Legends series: Tommy Heinsohn". Interview with Jamie Most, www.espn.com. June 09, 2010.

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• I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Gente, Intentar, Juntos

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• I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!

  Tom Heinsohn

  Thinking, Player, Fans

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