Isaiah Thomas Quotes

Coach OB is fun to play for. He's very tough on you. He wants you to be successful.

You go the whole distance as a player, the last thing you probably want is the coach to say, 'Okay, you've gone this far, I'm going to take you out.'

When I used to play, the manager would tell us that you are as good as your last performance. That made all the players more hungry to finish strong.

Coach Calipari pushes his players, and that's why his teams are successful.

That's what you want... you work hard, you want your guys to, you know, work the same way you work, and it all helps the team.

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

I'm going to go out there and work hard. I'm going to get better, I'm going to learn from my mistakes and I'm going to be there when my team needs me.

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

It's not all about talent. It's about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you're coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.

As a coach, you never take your foot of the gas when it comes to enforcement of your culture.

I try to prove that I am an important player every day and game after game.

Every day, I have to work and show the coach I work well and I deserve my place.

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

For me, after every game you look yourself in the mirror and ask 'what can i do better, what can i do to help this team?' Then you go back to the drawing board and you go back and you work hard.

When I got traded to the Raptors Kyle Lowry told me, 'We expect you to average 15 points a game off the bench.' And I said, 'Perfect, so you need me here.' And that made me feel wanted. So once he put that expectation on me, it just made everything fall into place.

I need to always improve and that is why I work hard to try and keep my place in the squad.

Detroit Pistons basketball slogan: When the going gets tough, we fire the coach.

My leadership mentality is to outwork everybody else around me, and hopefully the guys respond well to that and work harder for themselves.

I'm not going to play with a filter anymore; I'm going to play the game I need to play to be a great player for my team.

I do what I have to on the pitch.

I want to be a better player, and there is no other way of showing it other than on the pitch. It is not a question of which team I play for.

You create a big-club mentality with the trust of the players, the trust that the team will get results, and then, when results are not good, the trust to continue with your idea.

I didn't really think I was really good, I was just playing the game because I enjoyed playing it with my friends. Then once I started playing organized soccer, parents, coaches and other teammates were telling me to keep going and that I could become something so I started believing it.

Young players have to realise pretty quickly that it is not about one game, but how you perform over the whole season.