Michael Carter-Williams Quotes

The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.

The hardest thing to do is be a point guard, learn how to be a point guard in the NBA as a young player because you gotta earn your respect first of all the old guys, all the old heads. You gotta command where to go, know the plays.

Coach Gase is one of the guys.

Thanks to Coach Bennett for a great education in basketball and for making me better.

It's hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.

I've always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I've had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.

The leadership aspect of U.S.A. basketball has really helped me out a lot.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I'm sure Mourinho will make me a better player and a better person.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

Mr Conte is important as a coach that is able to really implement a game plan.

If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.

I think Jeff Hornacek is a very, very good basketball coach and an outstanding person.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

My first introduction to Russell Westbrook was as a leader. It was pretty impressive.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

I played a lot of games at a young age and I feel like I'm an older player in the side now. I communicate a lot more on the pitch and in the training room now.

If you give time and space to players, they will make good decisions and score goals.

I've had a lot of great coaches. I think Guus Hiddink and Vicente del Bosque are the ones closest to my style. I'm more friendly with the players than a 'formal' coach. I'm not a professor. I'm Roberto Carlos and I want to win with my players and I want them to help me by doing their job well.

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.'

Competition's always good, but the biggest thing I like about coach Saban is that he gives everybody the opportunity to play.