Chuck Daly Quotes

• I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

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• The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

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• I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they’re so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

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• If you’re going to have to beg them to play, it’s not going to work.

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• The two championship years were that significant for me.

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• I’ve had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

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• There’s nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

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• Though I’d have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

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• To some degree. I know I couldn’t do it anymore.

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Chuck Daly (9)

Birth:	20th July, 1930
Death:	9th May, 2009
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach

About

Charles Jerome "Chuck" Daly was born in St. Marys, Pennsylvania. He was an American basketball head coach. He led the Detroit Pistons to consecutive National Basketball Association Championships in 1989 and 1990, and the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team to the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. The Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award is named after him. He matriculated at St. Bonaventure University for one year before transferring to Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1952.

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