A biography for Nick Nursehasn’t been written yet.
“I've coached a lot of teams and moved up gradually and tried to succeed and tried to have success at every level. When that happens, you just continue to wonder if you can keep doing it one more level.”
“We want to always play with pace on offence.”
“You look at any roster and you say, 'Geez, he's pretty good. He's pretty good. He's talented. He comes off the bench?' All of a sudden, it's, 'Geez, that's a pretty good roster they got right there.'”
“I didn't think reaching the NBA was a possibility when I coached Derby in 1990. I was right out of college when I went there and was more concerned about playing a bit and getting that out of my system.”
“I read a couple books on democratic coaching.”
“When I started coaching, I wanted to find out quickly if I could do it.”
“The Energy job was probably the key. It kind of transitioned me back into the States. It gave me a link to the NBA. And I got to make some contacts and meet some players and get players set up and learn the NBA game and terminology and coaching those type of players. It was certainly a huge, huge key to getting to the NBA.”
“My goal early in becoming a head coach so young was to find out if I could do it. I just wanted to see if I could be a good head coach and then start learning from head coaching.”
“I still say, to this day, I could not guard Nigel Lloyd.”
“Don't let people take you ahead of where you are at.”
“The game's evolving quickly, man, and somebody's gotta be trying some new stuff.”
“Fifty-nine or 54 or 52 or 49 wins isn't going to mean a whole lot. What's going to mean a whole lot to me, our organization, and our fans is how we perform in the playoffs and how deep a run we can make, and that's what we're setting our sights on.”
“Why are people afraid to try something different? Because of the scrutiny they're going to receive if it doesn't work. That stops people from trying things different a lot.”
“The gym in Milton Keynes or wooden backboards at Chester - maybe it didn't feel that glamorous at the time, but it was fun.”
“Most of the places I came from, you gotta do a lot of gunslinging or coaching by the seat of your pants.”
“Iowa is always home for me.”
“At some point in your life, you try to self-reflect and ask yourself, 'Why do I want to win so bad?'”
“I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.”
“I want to see given extra effort, pulling for your teammates: those are the kinds of things we're shooting for and we're going for because that's what we need.”
“I was getting a degree in accounting, and I was going to go off and account. And as it worked out, I haven't accounted for anything since.”