Kelvin Sampson Quotes

The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.

I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

I kind of like the idea of just coaching, nothing else. But I just think some coaches are better suited for college than the NBA. I believe I'm one of those guys. I think Tom Izzo is one of those guys. Mike Krzyzewski. I think they found the right jobs and they've stayed with them.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

You're not going to see Bill Walton or Kareem coming in every three years. Those days are over. That's what makes the job so difficult. But it's the dream job for anyone who has spent a career in coaching and has a sense of what UCLA means.

My heading was NBA head coach. I didn't want to be back in college for a lot of reasons.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

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

I just coach and get my guys ready.

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

But it's been a learning experience; learning the NBA, learning the travel schedule and certain coaches, their styles, what they like to run out of timeouts, personnel, tendencies.

I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.