Rick Majerus Quotes

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Coach Skiles is tough. He's been my only coach in the NBA, so I'm used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can't fault him for that.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

Tom Coughlin is great with the players and he is what you see with the media. He's a good guy and he's a fun guy, but at the same time he's a serious guy when it comes to winning and it comes to football.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable, and that's how I expect to coach this basketball team. I am truly excited about this next phase of my basketball career.

When I was young, we used to do drills to get a feel for the man you were marking.

You've just got to read your read keys and rep it in practice and then just do your job on the field.

Trust the process. If I can't trust you to go to class, how can I trust you on the field? If you want rings, want to go to the league, want to be great, trust the process.

I think it's all machismo - 'Come on, you've got to guard your guy, man. If you can't guard your guy, then you can't play defence.' A lot of it is accountability, where you say, 'Hey, you're matched up with him. Go do your job.' The zone kind of sometimes moves a lot of pieces around.

In football, there's always room for improvement.

Coming to a team like the Spurs, you're automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way.

The biggest word in football, and it's a dirty word - no one likes to use it - is accountability.

Be tough. As a big guy, it's what your teammates expect from you, to be strong. Set good screens offensively and box out at the other end. It's a simple technique. I learned it when I was little.

Three years under Saban changed me. He's the best coach in the world at what he does.

Every week we work really hard on that, in our defensive and offensive set pieces, and in our routines as well.

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.

We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

Football is all about repetition. The trick for a coach is to be innovative when you ask for it.

The New York Yankees' organization - they train us well from the get-go. They tell us how to handle everything.

I've always loved blocking shots.

When I joined AC Milan I didn't play for six months. But I was training under a great coach in Carlo Ancelotti. I can't stress how important those six months were - they changed my life.