Joe Mazzulla Quotes

People are gonna say the target is on our back, but I hope it's right on our forehead in between our eyes. I hope I can see the red dot.

Unless they changed the light bulbs in the arena, they won't be any brighter than they were last series.

That's what happens when you lose games in the regular season. After we lost to Atlanta, I went on the mats and punished myself and pounded my body until I couldn't take anymore, and ended up tearing up my knee. It was a great experience for me, I had to do six hours of treatment to coach the next game without too much of a limp. I couldn't walk. It put me in this fight or flight mentality because I couldn't relax. I had to constantly train, get physical therapy, and it was just awesome. I was thinking about maybe getting hurt every All-Star break. It brought a different level of focus that I had to have. I had to walk slower, I couldn't move certain ways. So it forced me to focus more and I'm grateful that it happened. I miss the mats though.

Aren't we all? In someone's eyes. We're all villains in someone's eyes.

Ever seen Spider-Man? ... Into the Spider-Verse? There's like, 20 different Spider-Men? That's like our team. Success is going to look different each and every night. I think the guys are doing a good job of understanding what that balance is, and as long as the process towards how we're going about attacking the other team is right, and it fits with what's best for the team, then it's just executing.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph? [...] Oh no, I did not. I'm only familiar with one royal family. I don't know too much about that one.

I still do it. Highly recommend it. There's sleep tape. I actually have a mouthpiece, I upgraded to a sleep mouthpiece, and that kinda helps with it. When I got into the NBA, I kind of learned how long of a season it is physically, mentally and emotionally. And I think coaches and players have to find ways to take care of themselves. It's important to optimize as much as you can. I remember my first year in the league, I wasn't used to having all this great food around. Food in the facility, pregame, postgame, food on the plane. I got really worn down and tired halfway through my first year. I just took a different approach and was like, how can I optimize to make sure I'm at my best as a coach, so sleep is really important and mouth tape plays a part in that for me.

Zero. No pressure. We're all going to be dead soon, and it really doesn't matter anymore, so there's zero pressure. You're either gonna win or you're not. And when you win, you try to forget about it a week later and when you lose, you try to forget about it a week later. So it's not pressure, it's an opportunity. We have an opportunity here over the next few years, however long that we're together. [...] [...] So it's not pressure. There's nothing anyone in this circle can do to me that's gonna impact my identity and who I am as a person or a coach. We're either gonna win or we're not, and 40 years from now, none of you are invited to my funeral and that's it.

I went to Fenway the other day, and I was literally looking at exit strategies to rob Fenway. If we ever decided to rob Fenway, I was like, 'We could probably really get away with this.' How could you not go to Fenway and think you couldn't rob it?

Blood. I mean, I wish it did. I just thought that was a moment, a way for me to express myself. The parquet, that's where the blood, sweat and tears of the greats (have been). So I don't get to go out there and dive on the floor for loose balls or like I'd love to or do any of that.

There's no fouls in a war. You either die or you don't.