Ndamukong Suh Quotes

You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it's tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That's where the conflicts come.

A friendly relationship with the coach is important for each player.

Both players and coaches take time to understand each other. Frequent changes bring that rapport to square one.

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.

I think Mourinho did not have enough respect for us.

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

Sunbae-hoobae seniority is a very tricky, weird kind of thing.

My rookie year, Byron Scott didn't really want to sign me. In New Jersey, the New Jersey Nets. I got there, and Byron Scott didn't really like me, but they let me come to camp and I was having a great camp. Stephon Marbury embraced me.

I worked with Mourinho and I became his friend as well. He likes me a lot and I like him a lot as a coach and as a person. He has put his trust in me and in my work, and I was very grateful to him.

I think that's part of the beautiful game. It's kind of this special relationship that happens in football, where you get kind of influenced by the people around you and the different cultures around you and it allows you to grow and develop.

I was a bit nervous when I first entered the Indian dressing room. Some of the players sitting out there had 10 years of experience and were sitting in front of me. But then Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri told me that there are no seniors or juniors in the team. So I could open up to them easily and irritate them with my questions.

I had a brilliant relationship with Thomas Tuchel. We spoke a lot, not only on the surface, but really deep about football and our work.

15 people in a room looking at you with no clothes on - that's a little weird.

I was always bossing my sister around.

Once you lose connection with the coach, it gets difficult.

Xavier McDaniel made me respect him. I thought I could do anything I wanted to. He grabbed me one time and almost choked me out. He said, 'You're going to do this. You're going to go get coffee. You're going to go get doughnuts.' It's a game of respect.

I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.

I really appreciate working with Skip and Stephen A. and value their opinions. There's definitely been growing pains, but I know they have my best interests at heart. Sometimes I make mistakes, and they tell me, but it's tough love, and I want to hear it, and we have natural chemistry on and off the air.

I like to get into people and make people uncomfortable. That's how I play and what I do.

People don't want to treat their nannies subserviently. They don't want to act like bosses. And so nobody quite knows how to behave, and everyone is slightly pretending that the mother and nanny are 'equal' - when that's not the case. And pretending you are equal can make things complicated, even dangerous.

It's the older girls I seem to get on with. I think it's just because they kind of respect me as a player, I suppose.

When you're young, it's hard to lead people that are older than you.

I was real close with Jason Kidd.