Frank Vogel Quotes

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Frank Vogel

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : June 21, 1973

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

Frank Vogel

When you have the confidence that you can go four, five, six possessions where you're just squeezing the other team's offense, getting stops, and then with our ability to run the floor, with LeBron James being the quarterback of that action and being in attack mode, we have a strong belief in what we can accomplish as a group.

Frank Vogel

If you have an elite defense, that can be your third star, so to speak.

Frank Vogel

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

Frank Vogel

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.

Frank Vogel

You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.

Frank Vogel

When I do get in that environment around other coaches, I do have an extra bounce in my step.

Frank Vogel

You never know who you're going to see there during a Lakers game.

Frank Vogel

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

Frank Vogel

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

Frank Vogel

There's a lot of different ways to be successful in college basketball. Most of it stems from talent and having the ability to recruit.

Frank Vogel

Winning two in a row doesn't seem like a big deal, but when you haven't done it in three months, it's a big deal.

Frank Vogel

I'm a very competitive person and losing doesn't sit well with me.

Frank Vogel

Everybody wants to beat their former team, and I'm no different.

Frank Vogel

The reason that I met my wife was because the lockout of '99. There were about six months where there was no film and no work and I had a social life.

Frank Vogel

This is a very stressful profession. Not just coaching, but head coaching at this level with all of the variables that you have on your mind 24/7, it does take a toll on your health and you have to be very cognizant about what's going on with your body and listen to your body and make sure that you take care of your body.

Frank Vogel

Being able to step away from your work is big. Not even the actual work of sitting down and looking at game tape, but actually putting your job aside and focusing on other things. That's a big part of being successful in this league.

Frank Vogel

I thoroughly enjoy this profession and everything that goes into it - from improving your own guys and also the game-planning and studying the opponents. I enjoy that, I really do.

Frank Vogel

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.

Frank Vogel