George Karl Quotes


46 George Karl quotes:



"When you have Ruben Patterson and Reggie Evans out there? When you don't know what play to run, just let them play? Let them go into the backyard, lower the fence and let the dogs go do it."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: American Coach Quotes Basketball Quotes
"I don't think I was as vocal with the four-letter words as I normally am, but I still got a few in there."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"There were a lot of nice words, ... It helps keep your spirits up."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"I do give Kenyon some understanding that he's going through a tough year. I know he's very frustrated. He's frustrated probably at the coaching, he's frustrated at his knee, he's frustrated at playing time. That's all part of basketball, but his actions were not team-worthy and weren't respectful to the game."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Understanding Quotes
"That's probably been my No. 1 trait this season: I haven't lost my cool. I think I've been more understanding than angry. It might be time to get angry."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Understanding Quotes
"Sometimes I think we try to overcomplicate it. Truth of the matter is you probably should just vote the honest way. I think you have to reward the guys who you think are All-Stars."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"We've always worked through it. We've always picked ourselves up. I trust this team is going to do the same thing on Thursday."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Trust Quotes
"If we make that extra pass, we'll find the 3-pointer and hit them. At times, we don't trust that extra pass. But you can say the same thing about 25 of the other 30 teams in the league."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Trust Quotes
"I don't think there's anything other than a hard hit to the head. He had trouble getting his equilibrium back, but I think he's going to be fine."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Trouble Quotes
"It's a bad hand you're dealt when your best player is in foul trouble and you're down 15 and 20 points."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Trouble Quotes
"They're going to get their minutes from foul trouble, 5 minutes, maybe 10 minutes. They've got to learn how to play that way. That's what they're going to get early in their careers. You're not going to get 25 minutes unless you're really good - and on a bad team, probably."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Trouble Quotes
"The one strength of this team is when it's been down, it fights back, and when its back is against the wall, it plays stronger and more together. It's hard to even evaluate the (past) two games because of the lack of commitment in so many areas of basketball were lacking."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Strength Quotes
"It's scary when you undergo something like that. But I did a lot of research, so I knew what I was getting into. And then it becomes less scary."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Research Quotes
"I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Reality Quotes
"I like the way we played. It was the most complete offensive performance we've had all season."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Performance Quotes
"I think it's probably a list of five or six things. It's pain, it's not scoring, not being more involved in the offense, not playing more minutes. The list is incredibly long, probably."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Pain Quotes
"He felt it would guarantee that it would remove the pain. Eddie has been playing so well and been such a factor with his defensive aggressiveness, he wants to continue at that level."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Pain Quotes
"I think from a coaching standpoint, this season had a lot of magic to it. There were also a lot of issues."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Magic Quotes
"He's a young kid who is going to be asked great questions, and he's not always going to have knowledge to answer them. But he wants to be a leader. I really like that."
Author: Karl Quotes Category: Knowledge Quotes



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