Frank Vogel Quotes

The NBA? Never in my wildest dreams when I was playing in Division III basketball.

We watched a show called ‘Outer Banks‘ which was really good.

Every player that I’ve ever been around that’s worth a damn wants to be challenged and wants to be pushed, and wants to be coached hard, and wants to be held accountable.

I like playing size per position defensively.

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.’

I was sort of obsessed with the Phillies as a young kid.

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.

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.

You never know who you’re going to see there during a Lakers game.

I’m an optimist by nature.

A player-led team is better than a coach-led team, no doubt.

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.

There’s a lot of different ways to be successful in college basketball. Most of it stems from talent and having the ability to recruit.

You got to worry about getting good damn coaches.

I really think your roster and your personnel dictates your style of play. When you have David West and Roy Hibbert does it make sense to play spread pick-and-roll game when you have those abilities inside?

The Lakers have always been on the forefront and anywhere LeBron has been, has been on the forefront.

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.

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

I was giving everything I had to classes, and I was getting a 2.6. I knew that wasn’t going to get me into med school.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

We don’t want to give up free throws. Those are mistakes.

Everybody wants to beat their former team, and I’m no different.

Every great basketball team, every team that’s on a championship journey takes steps each year, taking a step further than they were the year before.

Mom and Dad were the best. I never clashed with them.

I had a persistent mindset that I was going to make something happen for myself.

The Orlando Magic is a great organization.

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 think every coach brings their own personality.

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.

You spend your entire time 24 hours a day thinking about when is the next game, and you put together the plan and that’s a lot of fun. When the game’s ready to go, it’s just exciting to see how all your studying is going to pay off.

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.

I love offensive physicality.

Sometimes, you have to take a big risk.

It’s always great to compete against the 76ers and to have friends and family watch.

Paul George is just a gifted guy that has versatility that no one else in the league has – in terms of playing ones, twos of threes, and really just blanket another team’s top perimeter scorer.

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.

If you have an elite defense, that can be your third star, so to speak.

I love watching game tape. I can do it all day long and enjoy every minute of it.

To have the ability to not have to change your lineup every night – if you’re playing a big team, you don’t have to take your smalls out; and if you are playing a small team, you don’t have to pull your bigs. When you have bigs who are versatile and can play both styles then you can stay true to who you are every night.

I think players have ups and downs in their careers.

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.

When you have your roster set up different ways, you really just have to examine the roster, find out what their strengths and weakness are and hopefully you take your roster and the vision you want to implement of how you want to play and you can tweak your roster to create that.

The value of a Bismack Biyombo is the speed and agility that he has at the center position.

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.

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.

When I do get in that environment around other coaches, I do have an extra bounce in my step.

What I would say is every assistant coach in the NBA wants to be head coach.

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

You compete to win games, but the people that you meet and are able to help, develop and grow – that’s the most rewarding part of this job.

I think there’s a danger in letting someone else shape how you’re going to approach a player. Every person has somebody who’s going to say something negative about them, you know? If you pay attention to all that stuff instead of seeing it for your own eyes, you can miss out on some opportunities.

I always want to help people that are in need.

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.

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.

I grew up the No. 1 Michael Jordan fan on Earth. I was from the Philadelphia area and Jordan was king.

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

I’m a very competitive person and losing doesn’t sit well with me.

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.

I feel that each opportunity has been a learning experience for me and will help me grow and be a better coach here in L.A.

I have nothing but positive feelings about the Pacers.