Quotes About Performance

After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.

Most players, they want to be coached, they want discipline, and they want an environment in which they can play their best.

We need to trust our coaches. Unless we trust them we can't get the result.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

Sometimes you play and you think you're doing one thing, and then you don't. The coaches are the ones who see it the best way.

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there.

You're not on scholarship for school, and it sounds crazy when a student-athlete says that, but that's - those are the things coaches tell them every day: 'You're not on scholarship for school.'

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

I've worked with a few coaches, and I did theater camp when I was younger, and I think what was good was when I was younger, it was never intense Interlochen theater camp.

I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

Players and coaches alike, you sign up for 82 games. You get paid for 82.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

The coaches can only put us in the right position, but it's up to the players to take the action.

When I came into the NBA, coaches wanted you to shoot a midrange shot or two before you shot your 3 - you know, to get an 'easy one' first.

I am paid to play, and the coaches are paid to plan, and that is what they have to do.

If I have learned anything from my coaches, it's that the next game is the most important. The next game is the one that gives you confidence or gets you into trouble.

I have to stay in my lane and focus on what I have to do and listen to what the coaches are telling me to do. They're going to make sure I'm prepared on game day.

I want to be the guy on third down, whenever the coaches need a play, they call my number.

A lot of coaches might yank you after the first couple shots don't go in.

It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.

They fire coaches before players.

When you get minutes and you have the trust of the coaches and guys just letting you play your game and be yourself, it definitely helps.

Obviously I get paid to score and create chances, and that's what I have to do. But just at the same time, I have to be able to be responsible defensively, good on face-offs, all the little things that coaches love and that win games.