Mark Hughes Quotes

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

Us coaches love to have as many players available as possible.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

When I went to the Dolphins, we retained most of their coaching staff, and of course, we had a few veteran players. So, I just tried to add a few pieces here and there.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

We have to talk about the players we have.

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.

If a team has multiple looks, it's so hard to stand in front of your team and say, 'This is the scouting report. This is what you have to prepare for.'

It's part of the beauty of the job in dealing with this is you have to have a plan, and that's why you can't only train 11 players; you train your whole team.

The fans just see what's going on on the field, but there's a lot more that goes into it behind the scenes.

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.'

Whether it's drafting or player development, the ultimate is putting a team together.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.