Red Auerbach



Arnold "Red" Auerbach (September 20, 1917 – October 28, 2006) was a head basketball coach and a front office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Quotes

 * You handle animals. You deal with people.
 * Quoted in Billy Packer & Roland Lazenby, Why We Win, Masters Press, 1999, p. 15

Quotes about

 * Tony DiNozzo: William Felton Russell, 5-time MVP, greatest basketball champion ever. He used to get so nervous, so pumped, he had to throw up before every game... One night, the Celtics take the court. It's a big game, huge. Red's watching them warm up from the sidelines, but something's not right. He can tell, not clicking. He clears the floor, takes them all back down to the locker room. Why? Because Russell didn't throw up. You know what Red says next? Leroy Jethro Gibbs: "Get in there and puke, we've got a game to win."
 * NCIS, Episode 6.08, "Cloak" (2008)