I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.