Doug Collins Quotes

A couple teams will grind the shot clock down. Most of the time coaches do that, it's usually a talent deficit. They can't compete against the better teams.

I would love to be a creative offensive consultant where I could help design and help create plays and ways to attack other teams without having the coaching schedule.

I think all you can do is prepare properly for every game but you also have to be realistic. Be realistic about what you are as a team.

You make mental notes. You're a coach, so you make mental notes from matchups, to who steps up in the playoffs to who doesn't, different types of players.

At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

Most coaches' attention to detail is very good; it's their job. They have to analyse teams, and they have to analyse their own team.

As a player, I had no idea whatsoever about getting a team ready for a game, what it entails.

Part of having a great offensive staff is every week we look at different plays around the league and the collegiate ranks, and things that over the years that might fit what we do.

What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.

During the regular season, you don't have the sort of time you do in the playoffs to prepare for people, so you've got to go to your strengths.

It is impossible to play the best of nines and expect the matches to finish on time.

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.

It's good to score, but there are some other things that are important in basketball too.

I've always been very intimately involved in the playcalling on game day.

Try to put our guys in different positions, try some different combinations, et cetera, to prepare us for the playoffs, which is what matters.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

You want to play a whole game, but in the preseason you've got to be smart.

That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

When I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.

Player X might be the best outside back, but does that player help the best wide player be as good?

In New England, I learned so much about football. I always thought I was a smart player, even though I never thought about anything but the six inches in front of my face. In New England, I was forced to learn so many schematic concepts.

Our players know that we try to come in each week and put ourselves in the best position to have a chance to win, and sometimes that means some people playing more than others; sometimes it means using different personnel groupings in different weeks.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

There's always plays that Coach Reid just draws up every single week. I always say that they always work. He just gets on the board in his room and just starts drawing plays. The possibilities are endless.

The film room teaches you how to do the job, how to study the game, how to teach the game from film. How to create an advantage for your team by knowing your opponent, and all their plays and tendencies. And there's no better guy in the world that I've been around than Jim O'Brien at breaking down film.