Ben Howland Quotes

Adam Szalai and Kerem Demirbay always keep an eye on me and make sure I'm doing the right things.

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

I bought into everything Coach K preached to us. His whole philosophy.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

I always say that if you stay with a good coach, the relationship between him and his team becomes like a family: he becomes a father with his children.

I always get saddled as a player's coach, and I'm happy about that.

Responsibility makes a player better. I was made the captain of Maharashtra senior team when I was 16 or 17. I know how to take the team forward. I had been through the responsibilities.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

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

In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.

I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.

In life, you'll often find that having influence and providing sound advice is a good thing, even if it attracts criticism or requires some sacrifice.

Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.

Leadership is service to others.

I am there for the athletes I coach.

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

I expect all the players, even the younger ones, to show leadership in their own way.

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.

My coach, Robert Allen, helped me a lot. He had more influence on my growth as a player than anyone else.

Being the main guy for three or four years, I understood what it took to be the leader.