Game Planning Quotes

Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you, so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

By relying on my experience as a player, I hope to one day perform as a coach.

It is impossible to play the best of nines and expect the matches to finish on time.

I think what we've tried to preach to our players is we're going to let the best players play.

I want to be more than prepared for the game, for the preseason, for the season.

The amount of pressure that I've put on myself as a defensive coordinator for the last 10, 11 years, I really believe there's a lot more decisions that go into that position than the head coach.

I have the mindset of a coach. I have to think, what would a coach think? How would a coach feel if I'm playing a guy a certain way?

When I was at Oklahoma, I always felt like I had to control the game because we didn't have great scorers. So, I had to figure a way to win.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don't go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

I work hard on the precision of my long shots, but you can't plan it in games. Sometimes it all just opens up for you to give it a try.

This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I have been studying for over the course of my playing days.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

I think, generally speaking as a player, when I hear the word 'scout,' it's usually, 'The Seattle Storm are playing the L.A. Sparks tomorrow; the assistant coaches are scouting the L.A. Sparks.' And then they come to us and give a scouting report on the players and the team.

When teams are crowded in the paint, it's very hard to get in there and penetrate, but you got to find ways to get into transition and get into your strengths. It's a lot of thinking out there, you got to make sure you think and strategize.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

In football, when I break the line of scrimmage, I see a player in front of me, a defender, and already in my head I'm thinking, 'I'm going to make him miss.' So I'm already looking at the next defender like, 'OK, how can I set this guy up to get him out of position, too?'

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

I am confident that I am a young coach that continues to improve and continues to get better and have been able to find success in the regular season and haven't been able to find it in two completely different circumstances in the playoffs.

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.

I want to be a coach one day. This is important to me. I think I have a pretty good foundation of football schemes and X's and O's.