One of the hidden benefits of me being a student manager at Kentucky was me having the responsibility of driving Rick Pitino to his motivational speaking engagements.
Frank Vogel
You reach for the stars and you work your butt off to achieve your dreams. If you fall short, you fall short, but you say you gave it your best.
It was larger than life - the 76ers, Dr. J, Moses Malone, Mo Cheeks, Andrew Toney and Bobby Jones - those were the teams that I grew up following.
You've got to stay away from those plays that zap your energy.
With all the talk of the 3-point line, it's still most important to build your defense inside to out.
The value of a Bismack Biyombo is the speed and agility that he has at the center position.
I'm a very competitive person and losing doesn't sit well with me.
This is a very stressful profession. Not just coaching, but head coaching at this level with all of the variables that you have on your mind 24/7, it does take a toll on your health and you have to be very cognizant about what's going on with your body and listen to your body and make sure that you take care of your body.
The state of Florida is an attractive place to live.
A player-led team is better than a coach-led team, no doubt.
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.
Be thirsty to always try to achieve something more.
I love watching game tape. I can do it all day long and enjoy every minute of it.
Nobody impacts winning more than LeBron James.
The NBA? Never in my wildest dreams when I was playing in Division III basketball.
Aaron Gordon, obviously, is a great runner.
The Lakers have always been on the forefront and anywhere LeBron has been, has been on the forefront.
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.'
Charge-taking can be one effective way to affect the rim, but the whistle's gonna blow a lot.
The film room teaches you how to do the job, how to study the game, how to teach the game from film. How to create an advantage for your team by knowing your opponent, and all their plays and tendencies. And there's no better guy in the world that I've been around than Jim O'Brien at breaking down film.
When we lose, watching a game tape is therapeutic for me because it brings clarity to what happened. And when we win it's fun and rewarding to see our guys do what we ask them to do.
I did feel support right from the start from LeBron. He's always shown me a great deal of respect dating back to our battles when I was in Indiana and competing with the Heat in the conference finals, and coaching him in the All-Star Game.
I had a persistent mindset that I was going to make something happen for myself.
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.
Being able to step away from your work is big. Not even the actual work of sitting down and looking at game tape, but actually putting your job aside and focusing on other things. That's a big part of being successful in this league.
I was at a basketball camp when I was a kid and the lecturer used basketball spinning to teach us a lesson on never being satisfied with what you've accomplished. The lecturer talked about how the game of basketball was about learning to control the ball through dribbling and passing and shooting.
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.
I think players have ups and downs in their careers.
I like playing size per position defensively.
I love offensive physicality.
I don't like isolation play, unless you're in the low post.
It's tough to get wings deep post catches when you're playing with two bigs all the time.
I'm an optimist by nature.
We watched a show called 'Outer Banks' which was really good.
The city of Orlando has so much to offer.
Well, any teacher or coach derives his greatest pleasure in their profession or their process when they see their pupil succeed, so I would say I definitely enjoy that part of the game.
I've got a lot of coaching friends in the business, in basketball and in other sports, that really when you talk about choosing jobs, you want to make sure that you have a strong ownership group and the reputation of the DeVos family is as good as it goods.
My wife and I grew up in the Northeast but my daughters are sort of small-town girls, from the Midwest.
I hope to create a culture here in Orlando where we're winning and we're having fun doing it.
I graduated in biology by overcoming an incredibly impossible science workload in college. The knowledge does nothing for me, but knowing I achieved that makes me feel like I can achieve anything because those science classes in biology are just impossible.
I was just thankful to be a student manager, and if that led to a high school coaching job or maybe I could stick at a small Division I school as an assistant, that would have been a success for me.
Mom and Dad were the best. I never clashed with them.
I was playing division three basketball and I wanted to find a way to work in basketball full-time. The way to do that was not in division three right away; you'd have to be a part-time assistant or whatever. So, I made the decision to transfer to Kentucky. Just so I could get my feet wet and maybe get a job in D-1.
I think every coach brings their own personality.
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.
I feel like winning starts with defense and rebounding.
The value in having bigs that have the ability to shoot from the perimeter has increased and having bigs that have the defensive versatility to not only protect the rim, but to switch out and defend smaller guards, the value of that has also increased.
There are a lot of 7-footers that aren't good shot blockers whether it's their athleticism, their quick jump, their eye-hand coordination, their ability to get their hands on the ball. Part of it is just instinctual.
Too many young guys on one team isn't good.
You work hard and you drill daily all the habits that you need to win at basketball and you're going to create a winning culture.
