Quotes About Players

Our players are not immune to the things that are going on in society.

Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science.

It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.

I think coaches are very much guilty of trying to implement players into their schemes as opposed as trying to fit schemes into players. That's the thing that can separate good coaches from bad.

What I don't want to be is the most important person of the club. If we win a game, it was the players who played very well.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

For me dialogue is as essential in football as in life. I like to talk to my players and I never impose anything, I always give them the chance to make their own choices.

A team is strong because they have players who have different characteristics, but they are all important so sometimes the needs of the game impose themselves.

Ultimately, the Niners just felt at the end of the day like the right place to be. I was really impressed with the way they run their organization, impressed with the winning, impressed with coaches and players. Everything felt like it was in line.

Some players are more fortunate than others to have coaches who are more focused on improvement.

As a coach, the greatest passion you can have is for improving players.

Hey, the Clippers are a good NBA basketball school. Helps out all the young guys who come into the league. It's not a fast team, not like a real NBA team. All the players have to worry about is improving on their own. You are there for your first few years. They teach you a little bit about the game, and then they let you go.

We believe in developing players and improving players on a daily basis. That would be the opposite of giving someone a 10-game audition.

I didn't realize the ceiling that I had, and I don't think a lot of players understand what they're capable of. Some of them dream of what they're capable of, but you don't really understand until you get in the moment and you give it everything you got and see in the end where you can end up.

In the end what matters is, do you develop your team, do you win games and do you graduate your players.

We as a club should be aspiring to have the best players playing for us. We've had that in the past. We're in for players if the manager wants to be.

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

You have to have commercial income so you can spend on players.

If the club is doing good, the club is getting income, then the club can share it with the players. But when the situation is not going according to plan, you have to look at the financial bit and see what you can change.

We've got to keep the cost of watching football down. If that means players getting the same money for a few years rather than a 25 per cent increase every time, that's fine.

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

I have told the PCB that I want total independence to work with a free mind and pick the best players, and they have assured me it will be done.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.