Ball player Quote by Mohamed Bamba

Coach Smart, he's given me so much freedom to sort of grow into who I was.

— Mohamed Bamba

I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.

— Jim Boeheim

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes…

— Kevin Garnett

When you're a young coach you just want to work hard and prove to everybody that you're smart.

— Mack Brown

Being coached by Coach Belichick made me a better player in terms of he taught me to be a professional.

— Sony Michel

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

— Phil Jackson

I feel like a coach when I'm on the court. I just see basketball as a team sport.

— Jose Calderon

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

— Mike Krzyzewski

If you put good people around you, I guess you're smart. You learn from them and that makes you a better coach.

— Tony DiCicco

I feel so fortunate to have great coaching. Coaches that have taught me great habits and taught me great things about basketball and life,…

— J. J. Redick

I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

— Kelvin Sampson

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't…

— John Amaechi