Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Vogel - Page 2

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

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.

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.

I really wanted to stay in Indiana forever, but this is a business and you've got to respect the decisions that are made.

With all the talk of the 3-point line, it's still most important to build your defense inside to out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We don't want to give up free throws. Those are mistakes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was sort of obsessed with the Phillies as a young kid.

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.

If you have an elite defense, that can be your third star, so to speak.

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.

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.

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.

You never know who you're going to see there during a Lakers game.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody wants to beat their former team, and I'm no different.

I love watching game tape. I can do it all day long and enjoy every minute of it.

A lot of the better offenses sacrifice defense to be a good offense and I'm not interested in doing that.

I'm a very competitive person and losing doesn't sit well with me.

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

A player-led team is better than a coach-led team, no doubt.

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.

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 did feel support right from the start from LeBron. He's always shown me a great deal of respect dating back to our battles when I was in Indiana and competing with the Heat in the conference finals, and coaching him in the All-Star Game.

Aaron Gordon, obviously, is a great runner.

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.

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.

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.

The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player.