“Live your life the right way, and the blessing will come.”
― Chris Mullin
“When you have the smaller guards – whether it be 6 feet, 6-2, 6-1, or under – they’re the most energetic, and they set the pace, whether it be shoot-around, practice, and in the game.”
― Chris Mullin
“I think it’s really important to have a vision of teamwork, team play, and unselfishness.”
― Chris Mullin
“If you’re going to preach dedication, work ethic, teamwork, unselfishness, and being part of a team to accomplish a common goal, you have to live it – you can’t just talk about it.”
― Chris Mullin
“Being around greatness is always a thrill.”
― Chris Mullin
“Forget about what happened in the past. The past is the past. Who cares? Time heals things.”
― Chris Mullin
“One thing that we can do for each other is support each other. At one point or another, we all go through trials and tribulations, so giving your time is one way to help.”
― Chris Mullin
“What you do is build your team around your core. Some teams have one main guy – not many, but some do – and you build around that. If you have a bunch of good players, that’s another way to go about it – through depth, teamwork, defense, and fundamentals.”
― Chris Mullin
“There’s not a lot I haven’t done, from being the No. 1 option to the No. 12 option.”
― Chris Mullin
“The game changes when you play good defense and don’t come up with the ball.”
― Chris Mullin
“It doesn’t matter how tall you are. You have to carve out space and hold your ground.”
― Chris Mullin
“Jay Wright is class personified. He wins with class, loses with dignity when he does, which is not often.”
― Chris Mullin
“I always have a need to win.”
― Chris Mullin
“I belong to the Flatbush Avenue Fishing Club.”
― Chris Mullin
“Obviously, cancer has affected my life, mostly everyone in the world in some level.”
― Chris Mullin
“I feel good about the four years I coached at St. John’s. It’s a special place to me. My kids go there. I met my wife there.”
― Chris Mullin
“I am forever grateful to St. John’s for giving me the opportunity to hear Carnesecca Arena and Madison Square Garden roar again for college basketball and especially for our players.”
― Chris Mullin
“The past four years at St. John’s University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career.”
― Chris Mullin
“I’m the only idiot the that decided to coach in my family.”
― Chris Mullin
“I don’t come in and break TVs when we lose.”
― Chris Mullin
“I don’t really differentiate from big-time college basketball to any other kind of basketball. It’s basketball. It’s fundamentals and defense and shooting – they’re all the same.”
― Chris Mullin
“I will always support St. John’s University in keeping our basketball tradition alive!”
― Chris Mullin
“I’m proud to call the Bay Area my home.”
― Chris Mullin
“I think Isaiah Thomas has been a really nice player for the Kings.”
― Chris Mullin
“The people I’ve been around who’ve been successful – be it players, executives, coaches – there’s no substitute for a hard day’s work.”
― Chris Mullin
“When you’re a general manager, you don’t get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.”
― Chris Mullin
“The basketball experience that I have, you can use in different areas, but coaching itself, you have to go out there and learn on the fly.”
― Chris Mullin
“To me, you have to take your schedule and just take things one game at a time.”
― Chris Mullin
“Spreading the wealth and giving other assistant coaches their due is critical.”
― Chris Mullin
“I poked Kenny Walker in the eye by accident. Every time I saw him, I used to apologize to him when I saw him in the NBA.”
― Chris Mullin
“My family’s been coming to my games since I was in grade school.”
― Chris Mullin
“I don’t envy these kids these days. Between Instagram and Twitter… the easiest thing is just take your phone off the hook, and you’re good.”
― Chris Mullin
“You practice, you prepare, just go out, and let it flow. Just go play ball. You have to go out there and play loose and play free.”
― Chris Mullin
“I think everyone would like to have that one guy who gets triple-teamed, and he throws it to an open guy, but there aren’t many of those guys around.”
― Chris Mullin
“If you don’t get better, staying the same is probably not good enough.”
― Chris Mullin
“I would say this: no matter what style you play, at some point, the team that beats you, people are going to say, ‘I guess your style doesn’t work.’”
― Chris Mullin
“New York – to me, it’s the greatest city in the world, and it’s got the most genuine people.”
― Chris Mullin
“I grew up a Met fan.”
― Chris Mullin
“I don’t know if people understand – losing is tough.”
― Chris Mullin
“The very first time I went to Madison Square Garden, I went to see the circus.”
― Chris Mullin
“I like to take the floor apart mentally. I like to visualize an opponent going for you.”
― Chris Mullin
“Basketball’s fun; it really is. Because I’ve done it all my life.”
― Chris Mullin
“I liked living with my brothers. It was cozy.”
― Chris Mullin
“It’s important to have an imagination.”
― Chris Mullin
“An opportunity to help a team to a championship would be very appealing.”
― Chris Mullin
“So many things in sports are out of your control, so I really don’t look too far ahead.”
― Chris Mullin
“I learned that struggle was part of life.”
― Chris Mullin
“I just try to enjoy each day.”
― Chris Mullin
“I’m not one of those one-man-gang type of players. I’m a guy who has to rely on his teammates, to play within the team structure.”
― Chris Mullin
“Everybody’s dream is to win a championship, but not everyone gets that chance. The only thing you can do is make sure you don’t look back and have to wonder whether you did everything you could have done. I know I’ll be able to look back and feel I had a good, honest career.”
― Chris Mullin
“I guess I get the most notoriety from my shooting. But I like passing and movement, making the game easy.”
― Chris Mullin
“I’m not going to jump over or muscle people. That’s the way I’ve always played, the only way I know.”
― Chris Mullin
“When I reach the line, I just know I’m going to dribble the ball twice, and when I shoot, I know it’s going in. I get there and relax. I’ve put more in than I have missed, so in my head, I know they’re going in.”
― Chris Mullin
“Sometimes a player can look like a million bucks on tape, but in real life, the kid can’t play a lick.”
― Chris Mullin
“I always hate to pre-judge people. I like to find out for myself.”
― Chris Mullin
“I have made some bad decisions in my own life, and people were there for me.”
― Chris Mullin
“I missed big free throws. I had terrible shooting nights. I had games where I had 13 turnovers.”
― Chris Mullin
“If there’s a good player in New York City, he needs to come to St. John’s if he wants to play the best basketball.”
― Chris Mullin
“I’m in control of my life.”
― Chris Mullin
“It’s pretty well documented that Coach Nelson has had a big impact on my life.”
― Chris Mullin
“St. John’s University has meant so much to me and my family.”
― Chris Mullin
“I’d like to teach my players how to play and not just run plays.”
― Chris Mullin
“I’d much rather have guys play with each other, have the ball moving, less dribbling, more passing, aggressive and decisive. I don’t want guys looking over at me to call plays; I want them out there playing.”
― Chris Mullin
“Life is so fragile.”
― Chris Mullin
“In the recovery world, it’s a higher power that helps you. You have to turn your life over to something greater. Anytime I tried to control my life, I had screwed it up.”
― Chris Mullin
“I’ve got nothing but gratitude for everyone who ever helped me.”
― Chris Mullin
“I’m a Warrior. That’s who I am.”
― Chris Mullin
“For a while, I loved everything about it, every single aspect of what was supposed to be a job. The training – I loved to train. I loved the traveling. I dug being in the locker room. I didn’t mind icing and heat. I dug it. It was like, ‘Cool. I’d rather do this than anything.’”
― Chris Mullin
“You don’t get the ball and dribble; you get it and move it.”
― Chris Mullin
“When you pass laterally, you screen away.”
― Chris Mullin
“I’ve always found myself watching the NBA game more, even when I was coaching college. So I’ll probably gravitate toward doing something in the NBA.”
― Chris Mullin
“The one thing I’m good at is taking things day by day.”
― Chris Mullin
“Talent always helps. Makes the coach look good.”
― Chris Mullin
“There’s not that many great swimmers from Brooklyn.”
― Chris Mullin
“The thing about the NBA, if you have a weakness, they are going to expose it on the first day of practice. You have to get rid of your weaknesses, and your strengths have to be as sharp as anything.”
― Chris Mullin
“Shooting is a skill you can develop. It’s repetition and confidence.”
― Chris Mullin
“All my siblings went to college, and my parents stressed getting school work done first before we could play.”
― Chris Mullin
“I have family and friends who are policemen and are close to my heart.”
― Chris Mullin
“The better players you get, the better coach you are.”
― Chris Mullin
“I would have liked to play in New York and be close to my family and friends, but since there is nothing I can do about it, I really don’t care where I go.”
― Chris Mullin
“I just want to be part of a team and get a chance to play a lot.”
― Chris Mullin
“I have read that I was a Bill Bradley type. I wish I was a Bradley. He was one of the best. He helped his team win two championships, and that’s the ultimate.”
― Chris Mullin
“As for my speed, I’m not the fastest, but just like in other sports, you learn to stay away from your weaknesses and make more use of your strengths: my shooting ability, court awareness, rebounding, and helping out defensively.”
― Chris Mullin
“I always felt most at home on a basketball court, dating all the way back to when I was growing up in Brooklyn.”
― Chris Mullin
“I just always loved the game and really loved playing the game.”
― Chris Mullin
“The older you get, you can’t take time off as much as you’d like to.”
― Chris Mullin
“It takes a lot to be a good player. It takes a lot to be a winning team.”
― Chris Mullin
“Whatever you wind up doing in life, things aren’t handed to you.”
― Chris Mullin
“In life, you always look at the total picture, not just a segment of it.”
― Chris Mullin
“Life is not perfect.”
― Chris Mullin
“If you asked a baseball pitcher from the ’50s what a middle reliever was, he’d laugh at you. In the ’50s, everyone pitched complete games.”
― Chris Mullin
“Being a great basketball player is only part of who you are.”
― Chris Mullin
“When you play injured, you’re still judged like you’re 100 percent. You know you can’t do all you want to, but you want to get back to help your teammates.”
― Chris Mullin
“Being injured helps you appreciate your health in general.”
― Chris Mullin
“I’ve played a long time and had success in a lot of areas. The one thing that eludes a lot of us is a championship. The teams that get there have guys willing to make adjustments, to sacrifice. I’m willing.”
― Chris Mullin
“My game hasn’t changed too much. I’m doing the same things as I did in college, except I’m outside more. It’s tough to go inside in the pros because the players are bigger.”
― Chris Mullin
“The biggest difference between college and pros is a lot more games and better competition day in, day out. You don’t really have any nights off.”
― Chris Mullin
“A lot of things have happened that I wish I could have just walked away from. But you wind up saying, ‘This is what it is – how does it get better, or how does it affect you, or how can you influence it in a positive way?’”
― Chris Mullin
“My four years in college, I cherished very much the opportunity to be able to stay at home.”
― Chris Mullin
“Ray Allen is one of the fittest guys in the league.”
― Chris Mullin
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