Quotes About Players

The best thing you do as a coach is develop an environment where these guys can have some success. Vince Lombardi was that way. He cared about these guys not only as football players but also as men.

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.

I don't know if my perspective is different because my dad played but I've always admired footballers: second division players, second division B players.

Arsenal is a team that needs good footballers and leaders on the field.

I just grew up in Ajax with all the players from Ajax. We only had two or three foreigners, so everyone knew each other and knew the system.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

On the issue of behavioral health and the like, the program we have in place has always been available to former players as well.

For players, during our active career, it is always difficult to talk about coaches - whether it is former or a current.

I'm going to continue to see my friends who coach in the NBA and see my former players who play in the NBA. I'm going to continue to go to games.

Well, I am never going to forget the players, the loyal coaches and the memories that I have of being a part of the San Francisco 49er team.

I frankly think the NBA All-Star game has run its course, the whole dunk contest... The game - if those guys actually played hard in that game, it'd be the best watch ever.

I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.

Free agency is free agency. I love when NBA players get paid.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

I always said in my mind I wanted to be an All-Star and show four-year guys in the NBA can be good players as opposed to just one-and-done guys. If I left after my freshman year, I wouldn't have gotten drafted, I probably couldn't deal with D-League and travel on the bus.

I liked friendly games, but I took them like a test to test new players. People didn't like that very much.

The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.

Bayern fulfilled every wish, no matter what Guardiola wanted: the players, the coaches, and even the doctors. He caused much disturbance off the field. But he is one of the best coaches on the planet.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

You can come up with whatever tactics you want as a coach but if you don't have the tools to execute you will struggle, and if you don't have willing players that are ready to commit to the cause than you will struggle.

There's two people I would say to try to go and watch who are probably the future of tennis. One girl called Taylor Townsend, she got a wildcard from the event into Wimbledon; she's an American girl. On the men's side, there's an Australian guy called Nick Kyrgios; he's 19, and he was the number one junior in the world.

I think Wimbledon is the highlight for most players, it's special. My father played there six times and never got past the first round so we have to end this bad streak, for the family and Norway.