Scott Brooks Quotes

It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

Sometimes I can write very angry columns, but I know that it doesn't work.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

I would never say don't have an argument.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad, and just say, 'This is the part I agree with that you're saying, and these are the parts I don't agree with.'

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.

I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

I think competitiveness is taken in a different way by different people. I'm not a yeller and a screamer, a jumper and a pusher.

Before you decide to have an argument, think about what you really want to accomplish. Do you just want to let your feelings out, or is there a point you are trying to make? What is it?

I'm willing to sit down with anybody and have constructive criticism.

Sometimes I had bad behaviour with managers that I loved at Sampdoria, like Vujadin Boskov and Sven-Goran Eriksson. I understand that this can happen during the game or when you are substituted.

My boyfriend and I are not good at fighting. We're better than we were when we started dating - two breakups and three years ago - but it's never come naturally to either of us. I have often wished we fought like I imagine Pink and Carey Hart fight.