Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

I want to be a coach one day. This is important to me. I think I have a pretty good foundation of football schemes and X's and O's.

I would have to be in a very different place in my life to coach basketball. I'll always work out and be in the gym.

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.'

The job as a coach is difficult.

We're all smart enough to figure out Xs and Os - it's basketball, it's not advanced calculus. But the most important thing is can you get your message across to players? Do they believe in you, and do they want to compete for you?

I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

I've had good players in my time. I really have.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

A good coach is someone who can break down players, someone who is good with angles, setting up points on the court.

I don't think I'm any different than most coaches, honestly. Maybe Steve Kerr. The guy never loses.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

I'm just here to be a leader and work on my game, work on my jump-hooks, my low-post game and just continue to get better. That's all that matters.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

As coaches, you want to be able to put your players in a system that's conducive to their success.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.