Bill Cowher Quotes

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

I used to have a log on every corner in the league, what their strengths and weaknesses are.

I think your team evolves every year. The more you know about it, the better you can coach it.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.

In Italy, the coaches are very attentive to the details. They really study things, and that is a big difference here. They look at your movement, your positioning. They study you and work out how to stop you.

I think, generally speaking as a player, when I hear the word 'scout,' it's usually, 'The Seattle Storm are playing the L.A. Sparks tomorrow; the assistant coaches are scouting the L.A. Sparks.' And then they come to us and give a scouting report on the players and the team.

I definitely believe our coaches are now leading more and learning more. They are hungry in terms of getting the athletes to improve. I believe it's now more mental than anything else, and I'd like to assist in that area.

You've got to turn over every stone; you've got to look for every advantage. You need to make sure you're doing everything you possibly can, not just on the field but off it, to give your team an advantage - from having a sleep expert coming to talk to your team to having an independent analysis of your team done.

Most coaches' attention to detail is very good; it's their job. They have to analyse teams, and they have to analyse their own team.

Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.

I don't think, in international cricket, there is a need for coaching. The real coaching is to recognise your players' strengths and weaknesses. You always remain positive with your players.

We get to play every team before the World Cup, touring in different conditions besides a few series at home. It gives a lot of opportunities to the youngsters. As we play more, we get to see who a quality player is and what plans and strategies would work for the team.

It was tough coaching Australia. They were so set in their ways because they have been the right ways - but the culture needed changing because the discipline was shoddy.

Ancelotti moved me to a new position and helped me raise my game.

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

I am interested in how much and how quickly Klopp, the manager that I know, can change the team at Liverpool.

It's part of the beauty of the job in dealing with this is you have to have a plan, and that's why you can't only train 11 players; you train your whole team.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

My only focus is to try to assess and to provide the players with better tools to perform.

As a player, I had no idea whatsoever about getting a team ready for a game, what it entails.