James L. Dolan Quotes

Gregg Popovich is one of the best coaches in the history of the NBA.

Getting somebody like Phil Jackson to come in and build the team is sort of like getting Einstein to help you with your math homework.

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

Hiddink really taught me a lot. We talked every day at Anzhi and I saw how he dealt with difficult situations, how he always seemed to know what the players needed. He was a great teacher. I hope I can be as successful as him.

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.

Phil Jackson is a mastermind, and he knows how to keep his team from being complacent.

You cannot just copy and paste Carlo Ancelotti. He's been coaching for 20 years now and I have never heard a player complaining about him.

I enjoy watching Gregg Popovich-coached teams.

I signed a contract with Phil Jackson, the man who has more championship rings, as far as I know, than anybody else. He was the best guy we thought we could find to run the New York Knicks.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

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.

The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

I've done everything I could as a bench coach. I'm ready to manage.

Stan Van Gundy is a top-five coach.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

I am a fantastic football manager, not a hard-headed businessman.

I think it's really important that we get an experienced staff. Guys that have been a head coach, to me, at some level is important to me. I value head coaching just because it's good to know what it's like to be the decision maker.

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

Under Pep Guardiola, it's hard work. For me, Guardiola is one of the best coaches I've ever met. He's incredibly clever and tactically really good, and he knows how to speak to us, how to motivate us, and that's what it is like.

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.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.