"I think it'd be just a travesty and a fallacy to try to taint Avery's tenure here. I think he's done everything, every day, when things didn't look great or things didn't look positive for what was going on on the court. He always brought the energy to work on this or work on that. There was not one time that he said he quit or he didn't want to do his job." –Jerry Stackhouse

"We probably could have opened it up a little more [with Jason Kidd]. We could have a little more free flow, let Jason create and not just make him a weak-side, spot-up shooter. But you know, Avery had us believing in the system, and that's the way he thought we could be the most efficient, be the best team we can be, and things just didn't work out." –Dirk Nowitzki

"When I first came here as a Maverick, we were a soft team or a team that didn't play any D and became a team that went to the Finals. I'm really at a loss for words, but at the same time, Avery's meant a lot to me personally and my career." –Jason Terry