Quotes About Adaptation

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

Andy Chase and I were keyboard players originally, and we became guitarists later. But it's fun for us to focus more on the keyboard stuff sometimes.

When we have the ball, we're all offensive players. When we lose the ball, we're all defensive players.

I am enjoying playing English football. It is very beautiful. With every game I play, I feel more comfortable.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

I'm looking forward to the new challenge that playing T20 cricket in England will bring.

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

I'm just trying to get used to playing everywhere on the floor.

We're going through a period of retrenchment as the dynamics of the playing field are changing.

When you logically think about it, what the BCS people have done, which obviously we're all part of it, I think it was great for a while. I think it took an imperfect system and did the best you can without a playoff.

A lot of things change in the playoffs.

I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.

The beauty about the playoffs is how you make an adjustment, how you come back game-to-game, and to be locked in and focused to win.

The playoffs are tough. It's a different game.

Certain games aren't going to be my game. Certain games aren't going to be other people's games. As long as we win with the main goal to make the playoffs, that's all that matters.

I believe that every single game in the Playoffs, round 1 to Eastern Conference Finals, every single game is a different game.

There's nothing that can teach you about the playoffs besides going through it.

I am confident that I am a young coach that continues to improve and continues to get better and have been able to find success in the regular season and haven't been able to find it in two completely different circumstances in the playoffs.

You have to be ready for anything in the playoffs.

The first game of the playoffs is the worst. After that, you kind of settle down.

In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.