Erik Spoelstra Quotes

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Practices for me, when your team is not going really well, it can stake a lot of stink out of the air.

I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

The biggest problem is when a player asks a captain why he is not playing but does not want an honest answer.

You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it's tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That's where the conflicts come.

If one player can say that I, Emmanuel Adebayor, spoke badly to anyone in the changing rooms, then I'd honestly like to know who it is. It has never happened in my life.

Everyone has his own form, and I never had any problems with Mourinho.

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

Everyone in the Premier League feels pressure to get results. It is part of being a footballer.

The players who play have to perform. If they don't, then they will be replaced. That has always been the case.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

You have to be prepared for situations on and off the field, and everything that happens within the world of football. It's difficult for players at big clubs to deal with these things.

When I'm aggressive, all the other guys are aggressive, and somehow that's how we win games.

In my early England days, there was a bit of tension with captain Nasser Hussain.

I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

There's always been conflict, inherent conflict between players and coaches.

It's the nature of basketball sometimes: every player and coach are going to have run-ins.

Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong." "I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.

Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.

In the fight, we are fighters, but after, we have respect for each other.

I just like to think of everyone as a happy family but in football that just doesn't exist.