Quotes About Communication

With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.

I am more open than other coaches with all of my players.

Whatever the coaches want to call and are comfortable with me me running, I'm always down.

As coaches, we have to give a lot of information. Too much, I think.

It's great for a coach to talk to you and let you know where you're at and not keeping you in the dark, like some coaches I know.

When I first came to England to play I saw coaches having a go at players when they made mistakes and they would literally be talking them through the game.

I think coaches sometimes think it's always their way.

When I first starting coaching, I used a megaphone.

Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching.

I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.

There's going to be situations that you get into that you're going to need help, for sure. But for the most part, I think coaching is just understanding who you have and your team, understanding yourself, and understanding the situation.

And some of the best coaching you can do is not telling kids something.

When you're on TV, you're still coaching, believe it or not. You're just coaching America, you're not coaching one team.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it.

One of the things that makes me horrified about a Trump administration is the continued use of code words like 'law and order.'

I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that's big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there's so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

If you don't have a cohesive team, you won't have good results.

When you're being mean to someone, you can feel the audience just get cold.