Craig Sager Quotes

I signed a contract with Phil Jackson, the man who has more championship rings, as far as I know, than anybody else. He was the best guy we thought we could find to run the New York Knicks.

All I can say, personally, is I have never learned more from an actor that I've worked with than Jeffrey Tambor. And I consider him one of my favorite, most valued people in my life.

I only had good years with Frank de Boer. I don't have anything bad to say about him.

When you have a chance to get Phil Jackson to run your team, you just do it, plain and simple.

From a planning standpoint, you want to surround a first-year head coach with quality coaches at all levels.

I'll admit I was curious about coaching a national team, but my experience with Greece was sufficient.

Pat Riley is the best coach I've ever had...

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

Players know that they can trust me which is really important. They know that I had the ability to adapt to change, and they have seen that many times over the years. I think these are important parts of being in control of footballers.

I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's not just scoring-wise, I do other things.

I’ve never seen a better coach than Gregg Popovich.

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.

I have played a lot games, worked with a lot of these players and learnt an awful lot. I've got the knowledge and leadership qualities. So, its normal that under these circumstances that I got into coaching. I'm learning an awful lot.

As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization.

I was out of the country for a period of time but followed everything closely through other people in our organization and we've made the decisions that we felt were right for the football team and we'll continue to do that and be as diligent as we can going forward.

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

I have to be involved in negotiations because players have to buy into me and what I want from them if they join my club, so all managers need to be fully involved in transfers, that's for sure.

The product is second to managing the people.

No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.

I'm trying to coach the team and that's what I want to do.

When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward.

I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now.