Mike Budenholzer Quotes

Mike Budenholzer

Profession : Coach

Birth : December 29, 1964

For coaches, we always look for those examples of guys who put in a lot of time and effort during the summer and really work and it carries over for them to take their game to the next level.

Mike Budenholzer

Getting swept is hard.

Mike Budenholzer

Any player that values winning, success would be great in a system that emphasizes unselfishness and ball movement and player movement.

Mike Budenholzer

It is always the great challenge when you have a good team and you have good players and you find a way to keep those players with you, then how do you add around the edges?

Mike Budenholzer

The really great players, I think embrace playing unselfishly and embrace playing in a system that ultimately kind of lifts up their teammates or their role players and guys who are around them.

Mike Budenholzer

I think people know how we feel about the international game and the European game and how we can learn from each other.

Mike Budenholzer

If we're competing and we're doing the daily fundamental things that we talk about every day, then everything will sort itself out.

Mike Budenholzer

Pop is amazing about listening to everybody.

Mike Budenholzer

Organizations go through change.

Mike Budenholzer

Sometimes coaching is being hard on them, but there's a balance. I'm fine with the word nurturing. It's teaching in a positive way. You have to find what works for each group.

Mike Budenholzer

There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term. How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now.

Mike Budenholzer

Whoever has a great idea, it doesn't matter who it comes from. You just want to have as many good ideas as you can.

Mike Budenholzer

The way things were done in San Antonio gave me a great 19-year look into how you can have sustained success.

Mike Budenholzer

The best decisions are made when everyone is included, everyone is involved.

Mike Budenholzer

One of the great things about working for Pop, not just me but everybody, is he wants you to give your opinions. He almost wants you to disagree with him. It's part of the whole process.

Mike Budenholzer

Any NBA coach, you just try to figure out what is best for your group.

Mike Budenholzer

No matter what the matchup is, you have to make it a good matchup.

Mike Budenholzer

I yell at myself all the time.

Mike Budenholzer

As coaches, whether we're making personnel decisions or not, we're all critical of ourselves. We always want to get better. We push our players to do that. But nobody bats 1.000.

Mike Budenholzer

I always say you learn so much from the players.

Mike Budenholzer