DeAndre Yedlin Quotes

Of course managers win ball games.

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

When you get into the game, you're trying to win games. So you want your best players out there.

Coaches understand that pressure is part of the rush of coaching. The challenge of trying to outplay your opponent is part of the fun, the adrenaline, the preparation, seeing your team evolve. It's why coaches become coaches.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

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.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

It's a unique situation to have, but again they say sometimes talent doesn't win. It has to be brought together right. That's the coaching's job. That's what we're doing.

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

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

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

When I'm playing in a close game, I'm out on the floor only trying to help the team win.

Football is what I know, it is what I love, it is what I have worked my whole career at, and I thrive on every element that goes into building a winning football team.

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

The manager wants to show his tactics, and if I do them perfectly, he'll pick me.

I always try to field the best team.

There are a lot of good coaches in this league, and there are a lot of good coaches out there.

I always like to have the best players in my team.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.