Jason Kidd Quotes

Real Madrid needs a coach that knows the club and understands the values that it represents.

I am the coach, all I do is train the players who are put at my disposal.

The head coach is the chemist.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

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.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

My dream is to become an important coach of a great team, possibly Juventus. So, I'm observing and putting aside all the secrets of the various coaches that I have had to try to get the best out of myself.

The amount of pressure that I've put on myself as a defensive coordinator for the last 10, 11 years, I really believe there's a lot more decisions that go into that position than the head coach.

I am so thrilled about the opportunity to coach the Storm for years to come.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

I would love to become the national team coach. I am aware that it is a tough job, but I spent 15 years with Italy. In my opinion, I have the right experience for this role and I know the environment very well too.

I'm a good special teams coach, and I can recruit.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

It is nice to pick a squad or train players for 30 minutes, but I do not like the life of a coach.

The two things that make you a good head coach in this league are if you can get the players to respect you and if you can come across with a clear, consistent message.

By relying on my experience as a player, I hope to one day perform as a coach.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.