29 Quotes by Fred Hoiberg

Maybe it will be mentoring the younger players,

Right now, I'm trying to make a decision.

If I was a rookie, without a family, I'd probably be playing right now. But my family is the most important thing to me. I think it would be selfish for me to go and play if there was any risk involved.

I enjoyed looking at the talent. That's something I've always wanted to do, to put a team together. I'm going to learn as much as I can, and try to help this team get where it was a couple of years ago.

(From) the smiles on the kids' faces, you could really tell that you took them away from everything that's been going on in their lives these last couple of weeks.

I think we knew that when I got released back in August that there was a possibility that I was going to play this year. Now it's kind of becoming a reality.

I scared her enough for one lifetime when I passed out. I still think about how scary that was for her. I would never want to put her in a position where I would scare her like that again.

I still think about that incident almost every day and about the look on her face when I came to after being unconscious for two minutes. I think about when I finally did come back, being in her arms and her saying 'Don't leave me.' I just cannot imagine what that must have been like for her.

When something is taken away from you before you're ready, something that you love to do so much, it's tough to accept. But at the end of the day, what it came down to was my family being comfortable with me being out there. And that's not going to happen.