Ottmar Hitzfeld Quotes

It's not an easy job being a coach.

It's difficult to be a coach.

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.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

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

A good coach is someone who can break down players, someone who is good with angles, setting up points on the court.

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.

MS has always been a bowler's captain.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

I want to be a coach one day. This is important to me. I think I have a pretty good foundation of football schemes and X's and O's.

I don't know about any others, but coaching basketball is the only thing I can do.

When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

My job is to work hard, together with my players, to improve.

I know how to get the best out of the players.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.