Detroit Pistons Quotes

Don't stop until you get the pump, just do the fake.

Back when he was forced to ride herd over the Detroit Pistons and all their gnarly egos, coach Chuck Daly used to have a saying: The game is simple, but the people are complicated.

MJ understood this better than most, as well as the essential return to hell; it’s one of the things that made him great. Early in his career, he knew the hell of being physically beaten on the court by the Detroit Pistons. He knew the hell of building up his body until he was so strong he no longer had to take the abuse. He was in the league seven seasons—yes, seven—before finally getting to paradise, for the first of his six dances with Winning.