Kenny Smith Quotes

Coach Gase has done amazing things, not with just quarterbacks but offenses in general.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

Mr Conte is important as a coach that is able to really implement a game plan.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

Matt LaFleur's a great coach.

Scott Skiles is one of the best coaches in the NBA, someone I observe and learn from on a day-to-day basis.

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.'

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

I started out wanting to coach football.

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

Roy Williams has been a great coach every game since the beginning at Kansas.

You're coaching Kentucky - and you have a chance to change lives. That's not what this is up there in the NBA. You have assets. You're trying to piece a team together. You're trying to win more games than the other guy. You're trying to advance in the playoffs, and if you don't, they'll find somebody else that can.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

I think the biggest thing, even from Day 1 after the draft, was coach DeFillipo being very detailed with everything.

I think Jeff Hornacek is a very, very good basketball coach and an outstanding person.

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.

Roy Hodgson is a very good manager with a clear plan.

I like being with the quarterbacks. I like calling the plays.

The 3 brought some art back into the science of winning NBA titles.

Hiddink really taught me a lot. We talked every day at Anzhi and I saw how he dealt with difficult situations, how he always seemed to know what the players needed. He was a great teacher. I hope I can be as successful as him.

It's a scary thing when a team don't know who to match up to, whose night it's going to be on the offensive end.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

I like the triangle. My first season, the whole first season, we played nothing but the triangle, so I know it pretty well.