Lenny Wilkens
Lenny Wilkens
Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkensis an American retired basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association. He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team", for which he was an assistant coach. He is also a 2006 inductee into the College Basketball Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth28 October 1937
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Lenny Wilkens quotes about
I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street.
I think my track record proves that if I have time, I can do it, ... And I wanted to do it, especially here. But the opportunity wasn't there. I'm not one that cries over spilled milk. Once it's over, it's over, and I prefer to move on.
The finances of those type of things really don't factor into our decisions.
I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.
I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.
The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.
If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.
If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it.
Intimidation doesn't last very long.
I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.
I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.