James L. Dolan Quotes

When you have a chance to get Phil Jackson to run your team, you just do it, plain and simple.

You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

There's no shortcut to being a manager or coach.

Phil Jackson is a mastermind, and he knows how to keep his team from being complacent.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

Coaching - get a guy like Phil Jackson, you expect the coaching to change right away and things to change right away. Ultimately, it takes a lot of time.

The big element I think that I bring is that I am a veteran coach.

Kevin McHale was a master communicator and knows how to coach stars, and that's a unique gift because you take an old-school guy that's used to coaching his way, he'd have a hard time coaching them cats now, but Kevin knows how, and he has the patience of Job.

I can't compare myself to Phil Jackson in any way, shape or form. His view on the world and his intellectual approach, I don't have that in common with him.

It's going to be an immense pleasure to work with Jose Mourinho, listen to him and learn from him.

Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

I feel like I've done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.