Quotes About Players

As a coach, we are not magicians; we work with the players and look to improve them and give them every opportunity, but if you are not creating or scoring goals over a consistent period of time, it is difficult for you as a coach.

There's a lot of guys in the NBA; it's about finding the right fit, a coach that has some trust in you that will play you night in and night out, consistently. Trying to find a right fit is the tough part.

We have all come to agree the modern players cannot be one-trick ponies, and we are especially critical of those who do not consistently produce in the biggest games.

Conte can't wait to leave Chelsea. He can't stand that they sell or buy players without consulting him.

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

All players want to have continuity, to have minutes.

Most elite players want to maximize the length of the contract, no matter the money.

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

Guys every year across the league look for new contracts. That's just the business in the NFL.

Players want to play a lot of rugby. We're walking contradictions at times in that we want to play a lot of rugby, but we don't want to play too much rugby, and we want to be available for all the big games, yet there are times when you have to sacrifice that because of game limits.

The foreign players have arrived in India to give our contribution in order to improve the Indian League, to make it more smart, more well-known, more open, and also to prove our quality along with Indian players.

It is about the players that take us to success. When they feel your convictions you can sell them your ideas a bit better and take them to important results.

It is clear that Barca are the best team in the world, and can call on the best players in the world, but we will only achieve something if we are convinced we can do it. We must only think of giving our all.

When you become the manager of a leading club, there are so many situations you have to cope with. You have to deal with the people in charge of the club, the players, the media, the expectation... you have to deal with the whole environment around the club, and that is something you can find difficult.

Managers come to clubs bringing players with them and they want to pick them at all costs - whether they are any good or not.

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

It's special to be in that elite category of players who've been on the 'Madden' cover.

Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.

I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.

I think most cricket fans would accept that Dravid and Tendulkar are very different individuals but they are both great players.

We always gave one-day cricket respect as players, definitely.

It is a big challenge as a spinner to play modern day cricket, where you have to have five players in the circle.

As more we play cricket, the more players will learn from it.

The best players of the world play in the IPL, and to bowl to them in T20 cricket isn't easy.