Frank Vogel
I was at a basketball camp when I was a kid and the lecturer used basketball spinning to teach us a lesson on never being satisfied with what you've accomplished. The lecturer talked about how the game of basketball was about learning to control the ball through dribbling and passing and shooting.
Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.
I always want to help people that are in need.
I actually missed some assignments at Kentucky because my teachers were like, 'Didn't you check your e-mail?' I was like, 'I don't really know how to use e-mail.'
You've got to stay away from those plays that zap your energy.
The Orlando Magic is a great organization.
I have nothing but positive feelings about the Pacers.
When you have your roster set up different ways, you really just have to examine the roster, find out what their strengths and weakness are and hopefully you take your roster and the vision you want to implement of how you want to play and you can tweak your roster to create that.
As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.
We don't want to give up free throws. Those are mistakes.
Every player that I've ever been around that's worth a damn wants to be challenged and wants to be pushed, and wants to be coached hard, and wants to be held accountable.
With all the talk of the 3-point line, it's still most important to build your defense inside to out.
Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He's someone I really tried to model some of my coaching philosophies after.
A lot of times those things are shaped by coaches you work with, but other times they're shaped by coaches you admire and study.
Focus on things you can control. Things that are out of control, you can't worry about what the result is going to be, you just focus on trying to do the best in your situation that you can.
Sometimes, you have to take a big risk.
I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.
I was sort of obsessed with the Phillies as a young kid.
The film room teaches you how to do the job, how to study the game, how to teach the game from film. How to create an advantage for your team by knowing your opponent, and all their plays and tendencies. And there's no better guy in the world that I've been around than Jim O'Brien at breaking down film.
Every great basketball team, every team that's on a championship journey takes steps each year, taking a step further than they were the year before.
You coach your own system for so many years, that's all you ever know. To be able to step inside and see how others do it was very beneficial.
I met my wife here. I had my first daughter here in Boston.
The value of a Bismack Biyombo is the speed and agility that he has at the center position.
I've got a lot of belief in Aaron Gordon and he's one of the reasons that I took the job here with the Magic. When a guy cares as much as he does and works as hard as he does, that impacts the group. And that type of attitude is infectious.
To have the ability to not have to change your lineup every night - if you're playing a big team, you don't have to take your smalls out; and if you are playing a small team, you don't have to pull your bigs. When you have bigs who are versatile and can play both styles then you can stay true to who you are every night.
Aaron Gordon, obviously, is a great runner.
When you defend and rebound and you trust the pass on the offensive end, you're going to have the ability to win a lot of games.
I really wanted to stay in Indiana forever, but this is a business and you've got to respect the decisions that are made.
You compete to win games, but the people that you meet and are able to help, develop and grow - that's the most rewarding part of this job.
I love watching game tape. I can do it all day long and enjoy every minute of it.
When you have the confidence that you can go four, five, six possessions where you're just squeezing the other team's offense, getting stops, and then with our ability to run the floor, with LeBron James being the quarterback of that action and being in attack mode, we have a strong belief in what we can accomplish as a group.
If you have an elite defense, that can be your third star, so to speak.
I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.
I was giving everything I had to classes, and I was getting a 2.6. I knew that wasn't going to get me into med school.
You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.
When I do get in that environment around other coaches, I do have an extra bounce in my step.
You never know who you're going to see there during a Lakers game.
What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.
A lot of the better offenses sacrifice defense to be a good offense and I'm not interested in doing that.
There's a lot of different ways to be successful in college basketball. Most of it stems from talent and having the ability to recruit.
Winning two in a row doesn't seem like a big deal, but when you haven't done it in three months, it's a big deal.
I'm a very competitive person and losing doesn't sit well with me.
Everybody wants to beat their former team, and I'm no different.
The reason that I met my wife was because the lockout of '99. There were about six months where there was no film and no work and I had a social life.
This is a very stressful profession. Not just coaching, but head coaching at this level with all of the variables that you have on your mind 24/7, it does take a toll on your health and you have to be very cognizant about what's going on with your body and listen to your body and make sure that you take care of your body.
Being able to step away from your work is big. Not even the actual work of sitting down and looking at game tape, but actually putting your job aside and focusing on other things. That's a big part of being successful in this league.
I thoroughly enjoy this profession and everything that goes into it - from improving your own guys and also the game-planning and studying the opponents. I enjoy that, I really do.
When we lose, watching a game tape is therapeutic for me because it brings clarity to what happened. And when we win it's fun and rewarding to see our guys do what we ask them to do.
The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player.Collection: Stars