Frank Vogel Quotes

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Football is the total team game.

You can't just score more points than last year without playing defense.

I know I have to be good on pick-and-rolls.

I feel like winning starts with defense and rebounding.

People watch the points, they watch the highlights. But the defense I think helps the offense.

I do a lot of things to help my team winning - set screens, roll into the rim, finishing. I think I can be even more than that.

You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.

Football is a total team sport.

I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

Center is a very tough position to play.

It’s like volleyball. There are setters and spikers. The chief of staff is a setter, putting the ball in the air so the Senator can spike it.

If I pass the ball to Karl Malone, he still has to make the shot, or nothing has happened.

I just love playing with point guards with high Iqs.

In high school, I played a lot of point forward, and I had to get everyone involved.

I was a forward, a center my whole life.

If I have the ball in my hands, I'll make a play. If don't, I'll try to get in position to make a play. I think that's what it comes down to.

I like the uniqueness and creativity you can have on a basketball court; there's always a different way to score. Obviously, you have teammates, so it's easier to draw up plays, and tennis, you have your patterns and where you should hit based on percentage.

There are a lot of things you learn from playing wide. You also understand the way that you can coordinate with the front three or front two.

Scoring a goal is very important for us, but the objective is to win the match.

When you think shoot, shoot, shoot you miss open passes.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.

Football is teamwork, unity, defence, assists, sacrifice.