Quotes About Adaptation

History seems to be so clumsy.

Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.

The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

I moved seven times the first seven years I coached.

If I had not been coached well about how to deal with a culture and a set of values that were foreign to my own, I would not have been able to be successful.

I coached Afghanistan for seven months. Out of those, I spent five and a half away from home.

I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

All my ex-teammates didn't want to become coaches, yet they've all done it.

You always think you're one of those players who will be in one place the whole time, one of those guys they'll never let leave because you play hurt, do what it takes. But it's a different age. A lot of coaches, they like having younger guys.

I think players changing coaches is normal.

People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.

You have to have coaches willing to adapt.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

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.

I've always had Russian coaches.

If you can't beat me, you need to get some new coaches or something.

All coaches say, 'We want to control the game. We want the ball. Blah, blah, blah, blah,' but it's impossible to have the ball all the time.

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.

Many fine coaches never become great managers.

Coaches are always looking to evolve.

Coaching changes are a part of football; they arrive ready to meet the goals they have been set, so you respect them and work with them like any other.

Coaching is not easy.