Stephen Jackson Quotes

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

There are not too many coaches who trust in young guys.

Just because a coach does not get out the clubs after a match but instead focuses on what he says, that's not an indicator of cluelessness.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

Pochettino is a terrific manager if you look at the way his teams play.

When I made the transition from player to coach, I evaluated myself and saw that I needed to improve my personality. I would fight with players - literally. I was 35, and you can't be like that; you have young players to guide. You have to transmit calm.

Conte is a good coach, but I would steal his place on the bench.

Matt LaFleur's a great coach.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

I don't know about any others, but coaching basketball is the only thing I can do.

Under Pep Guardiola, it's hard work. For me, Guardiola is one of the best coaches I've ever met. He's incredibly clever and tactically really good, and he knows how to speak to us, how to motivate us, and that's what it is like.

I would say Pep Guardiola's No. 1 quality is that he sees the technical and tactical aspect of a game really fast.

Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.

I've had a lot of great coaches. I think Guus Hiddink and Vicente del Bosque are the ones closest to my style. I'm more friendly with the players than a 'formal' coach. I'm not a professor. I'm Roberto Carlos and I want to win with my players and I want them to help me by doing their job well.

I love working with Coach O'Brien, Coach Godsey, and they are terrific football coaches.

To me, I have always been a Rick Adelman fan. I felt like if I had been in his systems, I probably would have been a better player than I was because if you look at his system, it was ideal for me.

Coach Gase is one of the guys.

Whenever I hear people crying about Kobe yelling at people in practice or wondering whether or not LeBron is best friends with his teammates, I just roll my eyes. You know how many off-court conversations I had with the Zen-Master Phil Jackson in my entire time with the Lakers? One.

I've always loved coach Brett Brown. I've been on record. I've been a fan of his for years.

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.