Frank Vogel

“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.”

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

“I feel like winning starts with defense and rebounding.”

“When we lose, watching a game tape is therapeutic for me because it brings clarity to what happened. And when we win it's fun and rewarding to see our guys do what we ask them to do.”

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

“Be thirsty to always try to achieve something more.”

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

“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.'”

“It's tough to get wings deep post catches when you're playing with two bigs all the time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“From Game A to Game B, your whole focus is on improving your team and what is the next challenge. What does the next team present? What are the solutions to the puzzle?”

“We don't want to give up free throws. Those are mistakes.”

“You've got to stay away from those plays that zap your energy.”

“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 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.”

“The value in having bigs that have the ability to shoot from the perimeter has increased and having bigs that have the defensive versatility to not only protect the rim, but to switch out and defend smaller guards, the value of that has also increased.”

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

“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.”

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