Barry Trotz Quotes

In the NBA, you're taking a bunch of different talents, and you're managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That's why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out.

The head coach is the chemist.

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.

Being a soccer coach is just like being a general who has the responsibility of guiding his troops into battle. If a coach acts too emotionally on the bench, his players cannot focus on their game on the field.

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

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

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

I love working with Coach O'Brien, Coach Godsey, and they are terrific football coaches.

It is up to the coaches to tell me how to play.

When you have your roster set up different ways, you really just have to examine the roster, find out what their strengths and weakness are and hopefully you take your roster and the vision you want to implement of how you want to play and you can tweak your roster to create that.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

You buy the right players for the system that you believe will be successful.

Obviously when a new manager comes in, he's got to instill his own ideas within the team and with his set-up for the games.

At the end of the day, Coach Belichick does a great job of bringing in people he knows that will fit well.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.