Kristaps Porzingis Quotes

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Even Spartacus needs a coach.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

We could all use more coaching.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

You can learn a lot. You can learn how to win. You can learn how to be coached.

Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.

My ambition is to work to improve my players.

Having a head coach pushing you is definitely a plus.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

I'm interested in coaching.

I really focus on the ball, I really focus on the work, and I really focus on creating all the growth opportunities for anyone in the organisation that's willing to do it.

My managerial ambitions were the same as I had as a player: to become as good as possible and to join the big teams in the big leagues.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

Great coaches can't win always in life.

The most important thing is that you can make tough decisions, discipline people when you need to, but also create a spirit to get the ultimate thing you're aiming for, which is winning enough games.

I'm a fan of coaching.

As a manager, it's the same as a player: I want to see how far I can get.

Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become.