Tim Hardaway Jr. Quotes

Managers come and go, and first-team coaches and players can leave suddenly.

When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It's just part of the world you live in.

I went through five different coaching changes at Fulham.

True success in the N.B.A., you must have consistency of culture.

When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.

You need young, hungry, developing players in your team, but you also need that experience to level things out and get hold of some of the youngsters when they need advice in certain areas of the pitch.

I think it's the hardest part for about 80 percent of the guys in the NBA. That's just the way it is in the NBA, unless you're a mega superstar. You're just going to play wherever you go. You try to find the right fit and the right team with the right system and the right coach at the right time.

The one thing I didn't understand was the Minor Leagues, how that part of the business works. I'd see Todd Hollandsworth out there one game, and the next game he wouldn't be there, and I didn't understand.

We all have learned throughout our careers that there are ups and downs in the NBA.

Carlo Ancelotti wanted me in Madrid and had bet on me.

For a player it's an amazing experience to be at Real Madrid. I matured a lot there, principally as a person.

I didn't want to end my coaching career as an assistant in the NBA.

I think it's hard for one coach to do all the formats all the time, and there are a limited number of coaches who have done the hard yards already. You can have head and assistant coaches for each squad.

At Kentucky, the environment and the coaching staff is going to prepare you for the next level, but the way we played in college... there's not a lot of spacing in college at all. So, I mean, you've just got to be able to play off the ball.

The Energy job was probably the key. It kind of transitioned me back into the States. It gave me a link to the NBA. And I got to make some contacts and meet some players and get players set up and learn the NBA game and terminology and coaching those type of players. It was certainly a huge, huge key to getting to the NBA.

I'm an NBA basketball coach. I'm not an official, and I'm not trying to be an official.

It's good to see Graham Alexander back in the game. He was such a tremendous professional as a player so I know he'll give management his best shot.

I know the NBA is my all-time goal. It's what I dreamed of as a little kid.

I still can't believe I'm even in the NBA. Me? Hah.

I played, but I never got a chance to see how the business worked. How the NBA offices and other teams worked. I learned that when I was an assistant General Manager for five years.

At Under-11/12, I was playing as a right-back. The manager then was Cyril Helstone, and he said to me, 'No, you're not a defender. You should be in midfield.' That was the big change in my career because from that moment until I made my debut in the first-team at Feyenoord, that was the position I played.

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.

My heading was NBA head coach. I didn't want to be back in college for a lot of reasons.

When you're paying millions of dollars for somebody to coach your team, you can find somebody good.

I've seen 18 managers go at the clubs I've been playing for. It's a part of football, isn't it?