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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.

I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.