Kelvin Sampson Quotes

I didn't realize the difference between coaching college and coaching the NBA. It's a totally different animal.

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

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.

When I came back to England after my stint with Derby in 1995, I really wanted more time to study coaching.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

The basketball experience that I have, you can use in different areas, but coaching itself, you have to go out there and learn on the fly.

I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.

If you recruit a kid, and you're promising him the world, how in the world are you going to coach him in that short a period of time to do that?

They don't work with you to get better in the NBA. Either you're ready or you're out and you go to the G-League or Europe.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

You're coaching Kentucky - and you have a chance to change lives. That's not what this is up there in the NBA. You have assets. You're trying to piece a team together. You're trying to win more games than the other guy. You're trying to advance in the playoffs, and if you don't, they'll find somebody else that can.

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

I had great success with Ivan Lendl. Was he a perfect coach? No. Was he a very good coach? Yeah. He had some very strong qualities and some things that weren't so good.

I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.

Mike Brown wanted to hire me to work with LeBron in player development.

When you go through the youth system you're always going in to do analysis work, looking at every way of improving and your coaches are always on top of you.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.