Roy Hibbert Quotes

I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'

I was a player in the Arena League, I was building relationships with that internship.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning 52 games in a short period of time. I loved coaching Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley and all those guys.

My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: 'Why didn't you shoot there? Why didn't you drive?'

I've been coaching the sport for a number of years. And I went through many athletes. Some athletes stay with your program for a long, long period of time. Some athletes, they have a different approach as far as coaching style or your philosophies. I totally respect their own opinions - they have the right to choose their own coach.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

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

I was always most of the time working in clubs as player and coach to win titles.

I coach at Rutgers University and help out there as a part-time assistant coach. I feel like the coach is kind of in me, and it would also be great exposure, so I'd be down for it, for sure.

Playing one year under Coach K feels like you've played for three years. I learned so much from him; gained a lot of wisdom and knowledge from him.

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.

I've benefited from great coaches my whole life, starting in sixth grade. To be able to pass that on is a neat experience for me.

I started to play in the fourth grade and didn't score for, like, a whole year.

Experience is everything in this league.

If you say you're a football coach, especially with a dude, they're always all over you.

The prospect of coaching two of the game's most exciting and decorated players in Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson was incredibly appealing to me, and I look forward to beginning this new chapter in my career.

I enjoy Otis Thorpe; he took me under his wing when I was a rookie. I'm also a fan of Ron Harper. He showed me the ropes and showed me what it was to play in the NBA.

I've played at MSG at basically every level of my career, starting from high school.

Quite frankly, Minnesota was where my career kind of turned around, and it all had to do with Flip Saunders and his coaching prowess and his system.

As I move on to the professional stage of my career, I will always remember my time as a Jayhawk. Playing here has prepared me for the opportunity to have a successful career in the NBA.

I don't ever remember wanting to do anything but coach. My dad obviously influenced me. But it wasn't because he sat there and drilled coaching stuff into our heads. We were on the bench keeping the scorebook and traveling with the team on weekends. It was such a great upbringing.

When I first got to Oklahoma, it was really a blessing that coach Sutton was at Oklahoma State. He made me a better coach.

My involvement with the USFL began in the broadcast booth before I ever coached a game in the league.