Quotes from Frank Vogel

You compete to win games, but the people that you meet and are able to help, develop and grow - that's the most rewarding part of this job.

Growing up in South Jersey, I have always been an Eagles fan. I don't paint my face or anything like that, but I deeply care about the team.

I think there's a danger in letting someone else shape how you're going to approach a player. Every person has somebody who's going to say something negative about them, you know? If you pay attention to all that stuff instead of seeing it for your own eyes, you can miss out on some opportunities.

I had a persistent mindset that I was going to make something happen for myself.

Winning two in a row doesn't seem like a big deal, but when you haven't done it in three months, it's a big deal.

I met my wife here. I had my first daughter here in Boston.

Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He's someone I really tried to model some of my coaching philosophies after.

I grew up the No. 1 Michael Jordan fan on Earth. I was from the Philadelphia area and Jordan was king.

I'm not from Philly - I'm from South Jersey, but we still consider that the Philly area.

I love offensive physicality.

You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

I was giving everything I had to classes, and I was getting a 2.6. I knew that wasn't going to get me into med school.

A lot of times those things are shaped by coaches you work with, but other times they're shaped by coaches you admire and study.

I'm a very competitive person and losing doesn't sit well with me.

When you have your roster set up different ways, you really just have to examine the roster, find out what their strengths and weakness are and hopefully you take your roster and the vision you want to implement of how you want to play and you can tweak your roster to create that.

I don't like isolation play, unless you're in the low post.

You got to worry about getting good damn coaches.

Mom and Dad were the best. I never clashed with them.

I love watching game tape. I can do it all day long and enjoy every minute of it.

Being able to step away from your work is big. Not even the actual work of sitting down and looking at game tape, but actually putting your job aside and focusing on other things. That's a big part of being successful in this league.

I was at a basketball camp when I was a kid and the lecturer used basketball spinning to teach us a lesson on never being satisfied with what you've accomplished. The lecturer talked about how the game of basketball was about learning to control the ball through dribbling and passing and shooting.

I was playing division three basketball and I wanted to find a way to work in basketball full-time. The way to do that was not in division three right away; you'd have to be a part-time assistant or whatever. So, I made the decision to transfer to Kentucky. Just so I could get my feet wet and maybe get a job in D-1.

Charge-taking can be one effective way to affect the rim, but the whistle's gonna blow a lot.