Quotes from Frank Vogel

I've got a lot of belief in Aaron Gordon and he's one of the reasons that I took the job here with the Magic. When a guy cares as much as he does and works as hard as he does, that impacts the group. And that type of attitude is infectious.

You coach your own system for so many years, that's all you ever know. To be able to step inside and see how others do it was very beneficial.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

I'm sort of an optimist, a high energy type of enthusiastic guy. Someone that tries to be genuine with the players, I'm not a guy that's going to come in and be a drill sergeant.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

The reason that I met my wife was because the lockout of '99. There were about six months where there was no film and no work and I had a social life.

From Game A to Game B, your whole focus is on improving your team and what is the next challenge. What does the next team present? What are the solutions to the puzzle?

The Lakers have always been on the forefront and anywhere LeBron has been, has been on the forefront.

You never know who you're going to see there during a Lakers game.

I've always been of the mindset that relationships can be different and relationships can go bad with different people. That doesn't mean they're going to be a bad relationship with me.

Be thirsty to always try to achieve something more.

I actually missed some assignments at Kentucky because my teachers were like, 'Didn't you check your e-mail?' I was like, 'I don't really know how to use e-mail.'

The value of a Bismack Biyombo is the speed and agility that he has at the center position.

I am a positive-energy, enthusiasm type of a coach and I'm going to spread that to everybody that will feel it.

A player-led team is better than a coach-led team, no doubt.

There's a lot of different ways to be successful in college basketball. Most of it stems from talent and having the ability to recruit.

Every great basketball team, every team that's on a championship journey takes steps each year, taking a step further than they were the year before.

I'm very good at blocking out noise.

My wife and I grew up in the Northeast but my daughters are sort of small-town girls, from the Midwest.

I think players have ups and downs in their careers.

When you have the confidence that you can go four, five, six possessions where you're just squeezing the other team's offense, getting stops, and then with our ability to run the floor, with LeBron James being the quarterback of that action and being in attack mode, we have a strong belief in what we can accomplish as a group.

A lot of the better offenses sacrifice defense to be a good offense and I'm not interested in doing that.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

The city of Orlando has so much to offer.