Jack Ramsay Quotes

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

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

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

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

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

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

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

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

I don't know about any others, but coaching basketball is the only thing I can do.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

The head coach is the chemist.

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.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

You're coaching Kentucky - and you have a chance to change lives. That's not what this is up there in the NBA. You have assets. You're trying to piece a team together. You're trying to win more games than the other guy. You're trying to advance in the playoffs, and if you don't, they'll find somebody else that can.

John Wooden's books are great.

The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.