A Quote by Pat Williams

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

Pat Williams

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Pat Williams
American - Athlete
Born: October 24, 1972

I didn't realize the difference between coaching college and coaching the NBA. It's a totally different animal.

Kelvin Sampson

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

Peter McWilliams

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

Marco Rubio

I've always found myself watching the NBA game more, even when I was coaching college. So I'll probably gravitate toward doing something in the NBA.

Chris Mullin

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

Paul Feig

It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

Dikembe Mutombo

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

Glen Hansard

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

Yves Saint Laurent

I have to tell you, I live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans. It's very difficult for me to say, 'Hey, I can give up my paycheck,' because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn't make it possible for me.

Linda Sanchez

The Energy job was probably the key. It kind of transitioned me back into the States. It gave me a link to the NBA. And I got to make some contacts and meet some players and get players set up and learn the NBA game and terminology and coaching those type of players. It was certainly a huge, huge key to getting to the NBA.

Nick Nurse

If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.

Geno Auriemma

I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.