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With my experience, I think I've earned that respect from the team and from my teammates.

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

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.

I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.

I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.

I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.

I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

I just try to be the same guy I've always been. Calm, collected, and being a good decision-maker and delivering the ball to the right guys.

I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.