Quotes: Coaches

I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

It’s better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

You’re always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That’s what I got the most out of this year. I know what other coaches like to do.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He’s the center of a team – doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

I sometimes think I’ve needed a bit of an arm around me in my career – which I’ve not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn’t understand me.

Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn’t want to take the chance.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.