100 Quotes by Frank Vogel

With all the talk of the 3-point line, it's still most important to build your defense inside to out.

A lot of the better offenses sacrifice defense to be a good offense and I'm not interested in doing that.

Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He's someone I really tried to model some of my coaching philosophies after.

You coach your own system for so many years, that's all you ever know. To be able to step inside and see how others do it was very beneficial.

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.

A lot of times those things are shaped by coaches you work with, but other times they're shaped by coaches you admire and study.

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

Focus on things you can control. Things that are out of control, you can't worry about what the result is going to be, you just focus on trying to do the best in your situation that you can.

You got to worry about getting good damn coaches.