Quotes from Frank Vogel

When I do get in that environment around other coaches, I do have an extra bounce in my step.

I have nothing but positive feelings about the Pacers.

The film room teaches you how to do the job, how to study the game, how to teach the game from film. How to create an advantage for your team by knowing your opponent, and all their plays and tendencies. And there's no better guy in the world that I've been around than Jim O'Brien at breaking down film.

Well, any teacher or coach derives his greatest pleasure in their profession or their process when they see their pupil succeed, so I would say I definitely enjoy that part of the game.

Every player that I've ever been around that's worth a damn wants to be challenged and wants to be pushed, and wants to be coached hard, and wants to be held accountable.

The state of Florida is an attractive place to live.

Everybody wants to beat their former team, and I'm no different.

It's always great to compete against the 76ers and to have friends and family watch.

The NBA? Never in my wildest dreams when I was playing in Division III basketball.

It's tough to get wings deep post catches when you're playing with two bigs all the time.

I hope to create a culture here in Orlando where we're winning and we're having fun doing it.

I was just thankful to be a student manager, and if that led to a high school coaching job or maybe I could stick at a small Division I school as an assistant, that would have been a success for me.

There are a lot of 7-footers that aren't good shot blockers whether it's their athleticism, their quick jump, their eye-hand coordination, their ability to get their hands on the ball. Part of it is just instinctual.

When we lose, watching a game tape is therapeutic for me because it brings clarity to what happened. And when we win it's fun and rewarding to see our guys do what we ask them to do.

I thoroughly enjoy this profession and everything that goes into it - from improving your own guys and also the game-planning and studying the opponents. I enjoy that, I really do.

Aaron Gordon, obviously, is a great runner.

You work hard and you drill daily all the habits that you need to win at basketball and you're going to create a winning culture.

We don't want to give up free throws. Those are mistakes.

When you defend and rebound and you trust the pass on the offensive end, you're going to have the ability to win a lot of games.

What I would say is every assistant coach in the NBA wants to be head coach.

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

I've got a lot of coaching friends in the business, in basketball and in other sports, that really when you talk about choosing jobs, you want to make sure that you have a strong ownership group and the reputation of the DeVos family is as good as it goods.

I did feel support right from the start from LeBron. He's always shown me a great deal of respect dating back to our battles when I was in Indiana and competing with the Heat in the conference finals, and coaching him in the All-Star Game.

I really wanted to stay in Indiana forever, but this is a business and you've got to respect the decisions that are made.