Nick Nurse Quotes

I love the no-huddle.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

Raheem Sterling is a danger to every defence because of his pace and technique. If you let him go one against one, you are in trouble. He has that speed with the ball at his feet to make a difference.

A lot of teams get a lot of offense off the rush.

Pace is just how fast we can get the ball from one end to the other. It's not necessarily how fast we can shoot. It's just a tempo thing.

In football, sometimes things go very quickly.

I ran a high-tempo offense in college. You don't really get caught up in it.

The big thing that Giannis brings to the game for us is pace, being able to get up and down the floor and play fast. We got to continue to do that and not lose momentum when he comes out of the game.

I think that's the type of game I'm better at - faster paced, just moving the ball more around.

Any time you can get easy baskets, it's a big deal.

I like to get out in transition. That is one of my favorite aspects of the game.

That's what I do - I run the floor, I run the wing. Either get easy layups or transition threes.

I know how easy it is to get assists. But you can't be a pass-first guy and get assists. You have to attack.

I just think I've got to be more aggressive at both ends of the floor. When I'm aggressive on the defensive end it really helps me on offense.

It starts the fast-break a lot easier when I get the ball. I don't have to wait for big men to give me it. Just get it and go.

I think in Phoenix Phoenix is like the run and gun team. We used to do a drill where we'd try to score in the first seven seconds. We used to do that in practice.

I don't like to put much pressure on myself but yeah that is my sort of football: get the ball, run with it, use my pace, create opportunities, cross.

I like to attack the spaces, move around a lot and make cuts.

In terms of pace, every captain wants pace in their attack.

When I was younger, I was a guy who always wanted to get to the rim and attack the rim and just dunk the basketball.

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. So, it's about adjusting to the pace. It's not meant for everybody.

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.