John Starks Quotes

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

There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.

It's difficult to be a coach.

It's not that you're not smart anymore; it's that you're unwilling to do it. Coaches who coach know what I'm talking about. You just keep battling to help your coaches and your players, to refine your scheme, to break down your opponent, to find ways to travel and take care of your players.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

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

As a company commander you have absolute definitions: the mission, the people.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

It is important for me, no matter whether I lead or not, that I continue my form even in the World Cup. It is important that you get runs because people look up to you, and the team also expects you to get runs being a senior member of the side.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.

The amount of pressure that I've put on myself as a defensive coordinator for the last 10, 11 years, I really believe there's a lot more decisions that go into that position than the head coach.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

I'm used to the natural role of a quarterback where everyone looks to you.

I love pressure; to manage such a big club as Manchester United is very good.

Being a captain means a lot - it's not just about wearing the armband.

The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant coach for awhile, then become a head coach, I probably would have lasted longer.