Quotes About Players

Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.

When people say 'American soccer,' they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer also includes Major League Soccer, and until we have a league that produces players at the rate other leagues around the world do, I don't believe we'll ever get to where we want to be.

What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.

If I can inspire kids to do what I do - want to become professional soccer players - then I think that that's everything I want to do.

Players like Ronaldinho and Neymar started in futsal schools. Denilson loved playing too, looking for things to take onto the soccer pitch.

Everyone throughout the soccer world knows the Cosmos name and the legacy of the players that played for this team previously. They helped establish soccer in America and I'm honored to follow in their footsteps.

I'm being told I've become an inspiration to a lot of young soccer players in Edmonton and to me, that's just awesome.

Fans can have whatever mindset they want to have. But I don't want anything to creep into the culture of our program, because our players, they get stuff pushed at them - social media.

As I've said before, I'm a big fan of social media because it allows players and fans to interactive but it can have its pitfalls.

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

Those heroes and soldiers who sacrifice themselves for the nation always have their coffins covered with the national flag. Us players are like those soldiers - we wear the national flag when we play.

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

What is important is to find the best solution for your players.

My worry is to try to improve my players, to work with them, to find the best solution for the club, and to give satisfaction to the fans because they deserve the best.

Obviously, as a manager, you decide the set-up of the team, who's playing, but when it comes to doing the things I want, I have principles, but I also want to leave it open for the players to find their own solutions. At the end of the day, it's also about the individual.

I have to give all the solutions and feedback to my players if we want to improve.

There are two real keys to winning. You've got to have good players: no coach won with bad players. You win with good players. That is number one. Number two is, when we are playing, let's say we are playing Michigan, and they had a really good press: we've got to solve that press.

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

Some things are ridiculous and just as us players and coaches need to improve, so does VAR.

There are some players who lacked respect for me. There were some things said in public that should not have been said, not in interviews.

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

The private sector is ill suited to taking on most of these large infrastructure investments: if the services are to be accessible, which they must be in order to be effective, the profit margins that attract private players simply aren't there.

I think the Lakers are a legacy franchise. Players know when they come here, this is the ultimate platform.

Melbourne is a great city and one of the favorites place on tour for many players.