Kelvin Sampson Quotes

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

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

Really, all coaches are accustomed to coaching... normal players.

The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.

My heading was NBA head coach. I didn't want to be back in college for a lot of reasons.

Marty Schottenheimer knows how to win, and that's what Redskins fans demand in a coach.

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

I didn't realize the difference between coaching college and coaching the NBA. It's a totally different animal.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.

The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.

When I was coaching in Turkey, my players played well.

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

My dad has coached a long time, so there aren't too many conversations in my family that haven't centered around basketball.

I have evolved a lot as a player working with Klopp, who is a very tactical coach.

The basketball experience that I have, you can use in different areas, but coaching itself, you have to go out there and learn on the fly.

Peter Moores has been very popular in the England dressing room. He's got a very good record of developing players, but I felt that there are some areas in international cricket where he is a little bit exposed, for me personally around tactics and strategy.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.

Every coach is different, every coach has different playing styles, but no coach made me have a negative experience playing.

After a certain point I know my players so well, I can anticipate their reactions.

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.