Jahlil Okafor Quotes

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

Guy Lewis was all about efficiency. He was a great motivator. He got real talent and taught his players how he wanted them to play: hard and aggressive!

Doug Collins - people just underestimate him.

I love the game of basketball; I love coaching. The attention, being on TV, all that stuff, that's not what it's about for me.

I worked in the summertime with the Bulls, I don't know, two-three years in a row, Vinny Del Negro, he told me I didn't play defense.

My job is to work hard, together with my players, to improve.

If you can make the players better, that's what I'm about.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

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.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

Of course managers win ball games.

At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis.

We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.