Kevin Love Quotes

Phil Jackson is a mastermind, and he knows how to keep his team from being complacent.

Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.

When you have a chance to get Phil Jackson to run your team, you just do it, plain and simple.

If you're joining the Knicks, there's expectations that follow that; there's a lot that comes with it.

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

Players alone don't win championships. It takes an entire organization. Someone has to acquire the players. Someone has to coach them. Someone has to generate revenue to pay them. But at the end of the day, the players are the ones who put their minds and bodies on the line to win.

My worry is to try to improve my players, to work with them, to find the best solution for the club, and to give satisfaction to the fans because they deserve the best.

In the end what matters is, do you develop your team, do you win games and do you graduate your players.

My experience, especially with the Clippers, has been great.

People talk about flip charts, tactic boards and other rubbish like that. But the truth is that as a manager you just need to get the best out of the players at your disposal.

You have to figure out that balance between younger players and veteran players, star players, and All-Star players, really a team effort. And then you have to be lucky.

I've been on teams in the NBA where we don't play the right way.

What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive.

Getting somebody like Phil Jackson to come in and build the team is sort of like getting Einstein to help you with your math homework.

I had a great job with the Knicks.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

I enjoy watching Gregg Popovich-coached teams.

I signed a contract with Phil Jackson, the man who has more championship rings, as far as I know, than anybody else. He was the best guy we thought we could find to run the New York Knicks.

Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!

It's been one heck of a ride. I came into the league playing with Kobe and Shaq and for Phil Jackson. Playing with Jordan. And so, it just has been a blessing. I can't describe it any other way.

I have played plenty of matches where I thought I had left everything on the field and given a game my all, but what I have come to realise since I retired and began coaching - 90 minutes on the field do not compare to life as a manager.

My goal is to win in Milwaukee, bring a championship in the city, and make the team a lot better. So I would never leave for L.A.

A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don't realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It's important to have guys who have been there before.

I've achieved big things that would not be possible had I not been at such a big club as Liverpool.

In the NBA, it's wins and losses. You don't have to deal with some of the hypocrisy of college athletics.