Alan Lewis Quotes

It goes without saying that no one at United ever expected any help. We understood that decisions can go against you. We believed we were the better team, and therefore, if the referee got his decisions right, then we would win the vast majority of our games.

I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

To me, if you see a play that's just a bad play, it's just a missed call, I think, as a coach, you should be able to challenge that.

When my number is called, nobody cares if I am a starter or not. They just care if I make plays or if I'm productive.

Individual quality doesn't decide games for us but the whole team.

The referees sometimes give for you, and others take it away.

In this game called football, we don't know who's going to the playoffs.

It's about how you impact the game.

To me, there's no honor to say, 'I'm going to start.' As long as you're getting minutes, you're closing games, that shows more of the value to the team than to say you're a starter.

There are loads of things you can sit and assess but it does come down to one match at a time. This game does speak for itself.

I don't like to criticise referees because I believe it is a very complicated job, and what they do is very beneficial for football.

One penalty miss doesn't change anything.

Any time you give up two shorthanded goals, you're not usually going to win.

Everyone talks about VAR, which is great. It will help the referees no end. But if you've got VAR in place and VAR becomes the ref, I'm not sure that's good for the game.

Everything falls on the quarterback.

A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of the body of work. There's been time when I've had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I've seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.

I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.

That's the unpredictable part, and that's what worries every coach: Protect the football. That's why, when you go into a ballgame, you may be favored, but there's no guarantee you're going to win it.

Every game, well most of them, come down to turnovers and the turnover battle.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

I think scoring first is huge in the postseason.

Knowing where a team will usually place a penalty can be the difference between winning or losing.

As a quarterback, you've got a huge responsibility: You're touching the ball every single play. You have such a big impact on deciding the game, just in your decision-making and how you are with the football and your fundamentals.

If you ask me if I got hit in Game 7 because they stole signs, I don't think so. The Astros have great players who don't have to do that. So I think that whether or not they stole signs, the results wouldn't have changed.