A biography for Nick Nursehasn’t been written yet.
“I think there's some certain attitudes and certain guys that can feed some positive energy, and that keeps you going through an 82-game schedule.”
“That's your worry as a head coach: Are you going to go in there, give them everything you've got, and are they going to respond?”
“It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.”
“I know the 'big spending club v. smaller club' theme is popular in the Premier League. I don't think about it - we are 30 teams trying to win the championship, and you do what you need to do.”
“I think a lot of personnel decisions come down to who's the best player today, like if we had to throw 'em in a game today versus what could their upside be 18 months from now. A lot of times, those are two different answers. That's the difficulty of player personnel.”
“I've known Adrian Griffin for quite awhile now and always had him as my 'when I get a job, I want to hire him if he isn't already a head coach and I can get him' list.”
“We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.”
“One of my favorite things about the D-League was going on the road and losing and not having to talk to anyone after the game.”
“It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.”
“Long time ago, we used to sit around eating popcorn and drawing up plays.”
“I worked at chemistry and developing a style of play on both sides of the ball and studied success and winning.”
“They do not eat Yorkshire pudding on Sunday in Iowa.”
“One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.”
“It's pretty draining, the amount of games I watch on a daily basis. It's pretty much non-stop.”
“I would want to start. I want to run out there in front of 20,000 people and get my name announced. I get it. I get that.”
“I always say we're chasing perfection in an imperfect game.”
“Esthetically, let's move the ball. Let's guard people. Let's fight.”
“I think I jumped the gun a bit on head coaching. I got named a head coach at 23, and I really didn't know what I was doing. I remember getting that job and going, 'Oh my God, they gave me the job.'”
“I was in love with the triangle because it was so different to what everybody was doing in the NBA. Everybody else was dribbling down, throwing it into the low post, and then their guy would go to work. To me, it was boring.”
“You're really in a bubble if you're not watching the league.”