Marc Gasol Quotes

I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

There will be ups and downs. Other teams will adapt to us, but everything will be OK in the end. We know we have to learn everything perfectly for this to work.

You have to have coaches willing to adapt.

Growing up, I did a lot of work that was technically based. So, I sort of feel that, no matter where you're playing, the basics are still the basics. Then it's just about adjusting on the day.

You've got to coach with what you have and who's available.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.

I jumped around to different schools so I always had to adapt - remain me but pull from different avenues.

There's a lot of learning that goes on based on the mistakes that we may make in practice, and our guys do a great job of trying to digest that information and be ready to go when we use it during the course of the game.

In terms of being able to adapt to any situation on any given night, in any given moment and that just comes with nearly twenty years of experience and paying attention to the guys that I've tried to emulate throughout my career.

The more you see, the more you're going to learn. Just got to take advantage of the opportunity and get ready to play ball.

Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.

Most of the time, it's easy for us basketball players to adjust to our situation.

Occasionally, you have to make adjustments and try different things.

It's hard when you have to play a way you're not really used to and you feel like you can do more than just that.

It's good to try and learn how to adapt.

It's not easy when you have a new manager because you have to try and adapt yourself to him, the team, training sessions, and the game.

I have my philosophy in my mind: you need to adapt for each moment and each team.

You're able to learn different things from different coaches and different players.

For every new guy, you need to change a few things in the way you train, the way you take every fight. For every guy I train for, I prepare differently and learn new things, and I just keep them. That's why it's good to be fighting new people, because you add new things to your arsenal and keep getting better and better all the time.

It's hard to learn a new guy each time out there.

Whenever you are in a new system, and you go on summer break and come back for training camp Day 1, you don't know how much is really going to stick.

It's a game of adjustments. Your hands aren't going to be in the right spot 100 percent of the time.

Going into Portland, I was just trying to not step on anybody's toes, stay quiet, and play my game. I think I was just trying to figure out the kind of sequences I was going to see as a hitter and learn from that.

Everyone knows I am fast, so I have to change the way I play. I always know I have to change the way I score. Every game is different.