Quotes About Players

Experienced national players deserve at least some respect and loyalty.

If you don't have the coach, you're out of luck. So you can get as many players as you want, if you don't have a system or you don't understand what you're getting ready to do, you're not going to win.

I respect the opinion of the fans because their love is important, but when the things don't go well, they have to support the players because we all want the best for Madrid.

For some players, it is a dream to play at Madrid.

Madrid is a club that gives big players what they need.

I wasn't ready to manage straight away. You have a few players who stopped and managed a first team straight away and were successful, and then there are the other ones who take different pathways. And I think what was important for me was to understand what I really wanted to do.

Sometimes you have to manage, and you have to sell two or three players who aren't playing many games.

A good coach is good in the management of his men; he gives all of his players the desire to fight until the last.

It sounds strange, maybe, because I have played with a lot of big players but I never thought: 'OK, they're going to go into management.' Maybe there was only one, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, because he was always talking about football but I did not have a feeling with the other players.

I like Southgate as a manager, what he brings. He always wants the ball and adapts to the players.

You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

Many managers bring players they have previously worked with into a new club - but that doesn't always mean they will continue to enjoy success together.

I've played for managers who said one thing and did another and players find you out like that. You've got to trust them and they've got to trust you.

It's not simply a case of managing players as they used to be any more, because players now are like small companies. You have to deal with their agents and it's become extremely tough being a manager these days.

You want to win things, you want the best players to come to Manchester United and if we're playing better and we're winning things and we're challenging for things then we're going to attract the best players.

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

According to the latest study, more than half of all NBA players go broke within five years of retirement.

If I punish you for defecting during an earlier encounter with me, then it is direct reciprocity. If I punish you for defecting in games with other players, it is an example of indirect reciprocity. Second, the motivation of people who mete out costly punishment in real life is hardly ever "altruistic.

If punishment is typically used in the context of repeated dealings where people know who has punished whom, then it is difficult to draw conclusions from an experiment where punishment occurs anonymously. If we want to understand human behavior and the interplay between cooperation and punishment, we need to study situations where the players encounter each other again and again.

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

The experience she gained should be invaluable to her continued growth and contribution to our team. In reality, compared to American players, she would just be finishing her college career.