K.c Jones Quotes

I'm a liar, but I'm telling you the truth about this: I want to stay on the road. I want to go as far as these wheels and gears can take me.

His ability to evoke Celtic pride was incredible. He would always talk about how all the old players called him up after an embarrasing performance and wanted to disassociate themselves from the Celtics. They wanted to mail in their championship rings, wanted their numbers removed from the rafters, and by this point there would be tears rolling down our cheeks and we'd want to kill.

Regardless of how liberal Massachusetts may seem, the Celtics were totally GOP. Like Thomas Jefferson, K. C. Jones did not believe in a strong central government: The Celtic players mostly coached themselves. They practiced when they felt like practicing and pulled themselves out of games when they deemed it appropriate, and they wanted to avoid anything taxing. They wanted to avoid taxes. And they excelled by attacking the world in the same way they had been raised to understand it: You pick-and-roll, you throw the bounce pass, you make your free throws. If it worked in the 1950s, it can work now.

Stories explained the unknowable before the advent of science. What happens when science is left shrugging its shoulders?

We're alive. And we have hope. I say, no matter what, we're heading in the right direction.

My dad always used to say it's important that people never stop appreciating sunsets. As long as we can still be stopped in our tracks and remember what a big deal it is that we're even here, there's hope for us. We're just brief bursts of being on a tiny rock hurtling through the void. Our time is a gift and we shouldn't take it, or each other, for granted.

In 1998, K. C. Jones, then coach of the Boston Celtics, mentioned to a CBS Sports interviewer, “I give the players a lot of leeway on the court, so they can use their imagination and creativity.” “Doesn’t that cause problems?” the interviewer asked. “No,” responded Jones. “We’ve been in the championship four of the past five years, and won it twice.” Jones’ approach to coaching illustrates a central truth about creativity: it requires autonomy.

What a mercilessly demented universe we inhabit.

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