Shane Larkin Quotes

I'm planning to go watch tape to see what D-Wade did when he played with LeBron. I need to learn how to be effective out there with him.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I'm by no means an expert at coaching high school football. I'm doing the best I can in Year 1. But I've already learned a lot of lessons and I imagine I'll keep learning them.

I think that when I start a season, I speak with my players, and I always talk about education and respect. And I demand this, but I give this.

I need to go play the right way, listen to LeBron and be a sponge and try to soak up what he's going to tell me.

Playing every day with important players is good for a young player: you are always learning from experienced players.

Coach Kidd has taught me a lot just from the point guard position.

Of course you learn a lot as a player when you pay attention to managers when they speak to you.

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.

Well, I think I've had the opportunity to be around some great coaches and players. And I have been able to learn a little bit, something different from every single one that I've been around.

Every day, you learn something. That's the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.

You learn a lot from quality players.

There were some great veterans who I learned so much from and who helped make me the best I could be as a player.

One of the advantages of going to a small school is that you're expected to be the man. They have to give you the ball, and there's more room for error in a situation where you can play your way through mistakes (and no matter how good you are, this is a valuable coping skill at the NBA level).

I had to buy into being a better player and being able to be coached.

Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.

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 also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.