Reiss Nelson Quotes

What you realize is when you have an environment and an atmosphere like we had at Marist, where guys cared about each other, the coaches were great teachers and communicators, whether it's high school, college or pro, I think coaching is coaching.

My ambition is to work to improve my 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.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A lot of guys, especially the young guys, I try to do anything I can for them - on the field, off the field, anything.

I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.

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

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.

Having the team with leaders - John Terry is one, Gareth Barry is a leader - is very, very important. These players helped me a lot.

That's my job as a veteran in the league - to help make the young guys better.

I've always tried to help younger players and to talk with everyone.

There is a mutual respect that exists between coaches and players, and ultimately, it's about us trying to help them reach their highest potential.

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

Rampone and the other experienced players gave me plenty of support when I first came into the national team in 2013.

My teammate Torii Hunter taught me how to lead and provide encouragement to the locker room.

When I was coming through, I had very little support from the older players. I always said to myself that if I make it, I never want to be that kind of person. I have a passion for seeing young players develop, so every young player who comes into the first team, I am willing to listen. I will give him everything I have.

I had great teammates. Adam Jones took great care of me. Mike Gonzalez took good care of me.

The thing about playing basketball in Houston was we had a great coach, great system, and we had guys that believed in me. Once you get that belief in you, it's easy to play basketball, so, we really never had so-called role players.

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

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

Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.