The Victory Machine Quotes

“Well, if a player’s underperforming I’ll bring him into my office and I’ll say, ‘Apparently I have more confidence in your ability to perform than you do.’ And it was sort of a way to motivate/shame/anger, however you want to put it, and yet still maintain the upper hand. ‘I just told you that I have more confidence in you than you do. So I have confidence in you.’ So it’s sort of an abstract way of saying, ‘You’re not getting the job done and it’s your own fault.”
― Ethan Sherwood Strauss, The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty

“Honestly, in the modern social media–driven NBA, you’re lucky if the soft-spoken rookie you drafted doesn’t turn into Howard Hughes with a handle. “They’re all fucking crazy now,” one NBA coach said to me, when lamenting how his profession had changed. “All the superstars are fucking crazy.”
― Ethan Sherwood Strauss, The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty