Kevin Garnett Quotes

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

There are not too many coaches who trust in young guys.

Coach Kidd has taught me a lot just from the point guard position.

Scott Skiles is one of the best coaches in the NBA, someone I observe and learn from on a day-to-day basis.

I always get saddled as a player's coach, and I'm happy about that.

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.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Dhoni backs players as well. People like (Suresh) Raina, (Ravindra) Jadeja, and Rohit Sharma have developed under him as players and has some terrific qualities as a leader.

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth.

Under Pep Guardiola, it's hard work. For me, Guardiola is one of the best coaches I've ever met. He's incredibly clever and tactically really good, and he knows how to speak to us, how to motivate us, and that's what it is like.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

You cannot just copy and paste Carlo Ancelotti. He's been coaching for 20 years now and I have never heard a player complaining about him.

Guardiola was a very special coach for me, the first when I was at Barcelona. He is a great coach, a lovely person, and I have very good memories of that time, but I would have liked to have had a full year with him.

Louis Van Gaal is a great coach. He has inspired a lot of players to give their best, shown them how to play.

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.

Van Gaal is the best coach I've had. We've got a very special relationship.

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.'

I was fortunate to play under Thomas Schaaf at Bremen. And I played for Arsene Wenger. So I always felt, let's say, more responsible than others towards the manager and his succession.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

That's the big thing for youngsters. When you go, you don't want a manager that's not going to have any trust in young players.

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

I'm an extension of the coach on the floor.

Bobby Cremins really knows basketball, and he is a good man, too.

I think there will be one overarching coach for Tests and one-day cricket. I think you need one person in control and in charge of that environment. Also it's important for people to know I am not going to be playing a tracksuited role. The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach as it always has been.

I'm planning to go watch tape to see what D-Wade did when he played with LeBron. I need to learn how to be effective out there with him.