With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.
I think coaches who don't coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
A good coach will come in ra, ra, ra and rejig the whole set-up. That might work for a year or 18 months but isn't sustainable. A great coach has the ability to get the best out of his players without the ra, ra, ra stuff.
My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.
With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn't speak with me about tactics.
I think every coach brings their own personality.
As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.
The fact that Phil Jackson asked a young kid when he didn't have to and said, 'Hey, do I have permission to coach you?' Those are very powerful lessons that you learn. That's only happened to me a couple times in my entire career, that coaches would actually ask me that question. That just lets me know that he saw me for who I was.
From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you've got to add some parts along the way.
One thing the Giants are great at is pretty much leaving you alone and working with what you have. A lot of organizations might try to change guys right away. Not the Giants.
If I stay working with Pep Guardiola, if he wants me, he's just going to be a lucky man because I will be really hungry. I am the type of player for his philosophy and the way he likes his team.
I love coaches that just talk about football.
Tim Floyd was a guy from college who hadn't won in the league and he still had that college coaching style of a dictatorship. He didn't want to listen.
So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
All really successful coaches have a system.
We're trying to win football games, and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center.
As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.
I've been coaching the sport for a number of years. And I went through many athletes. Some athletes stay with your program for a long, long period of time. Some athletes, they have a different approach as far as coaching style or your philosophies. I totally respect their own opinions - they have the right to choose their own coach.
I grew up an Urban Meyer fan. I loved the way he coached, loved the way he did things.
My coaching philosophy? Determine your players talents and give them every weapon to get the most from those talents.
Wenger is an immense manager and a great man. He takes care of his players, maybe too much. He's not a man of conflict.
The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
