Pat Williams Quotes

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

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

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

I didn't realize the difference between coaching college and coaching the NBA. It's a totally different animal.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

I don't see myself coaching because the intensity of that is massive, and the intensity as a manager, for example Arsene Wenger, is even more.

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

You're all over the place usually with young players. You're trying to manage their emotions and teach them NBA situations. It usually takes months, even years, to learn and recognize NBA situations and then to develop a level of competitiveness that's necessary at this level.

I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

Being an NBA general manager really is a lot of pressure. There's so much that goes into the job.

I work every year with my players towards improving ourselves and growing in terms of the way we play. The psychological aspect and the management of human resources are also very important.

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

Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.

Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

In the NBA, you're taking a bunch of different talents, and you're managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That's why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out.

It is up to the coaches to tell me how to play.

Luiz Felipe Scolari was a good professional, a nice person, someone you could talk with before and after games. He has a lot of experience and is a good manager.

When I was with the Giants, I played for Dusty Baker, and I love Dusty to death. I think he's a great manager and great person, but he platooned me. His reasoning was to get everybody in the lineup. It wasn't that I couldn't play every day.

When I first came to England to play I saw coaches having a go at players when they made mistakes and they would literally be talking them through the game.

For me to be a better player, I need to play more games, and having a gaffer I know has great trust in me gives me the confidence I need to help me improve my game.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.