Douglas Costa Quotes

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

I want to be the guy that leads the team to victories.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

I don't think I'm any different than most coaches, honestly. Maybe Steve Kerr. The guy never loses.

At Barcelona, I had the best players ever, and they helped me to be a successful manager.

Guardiola can get the best out of everyone and that's why he is what he is.

I love challenges, especially with Pep Guardiola.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.

This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

The better you can prepare your players and the more you can put their minds to it is really important.

I always try to field the best team.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

I think Tom Coughlin is an amazing motivator. When you look at his personality, you say, 'Oh, I don't know about that.' But there's some ability he has to laser-focus a football team when it's most important. He seems to be a real valuable asset, kind of Knute Rocke almost.

I've never been a numbers guy. Numbers don't excite me. Winning games excites me.

I feel like any team I'm on, I can help take that team to the playoffs.

In the end, every coach wants the same - that's to win.