Luis Enrique Quotes

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.

My players, because they work with me every day, they know my commitment and how I work.

Any time you make a basketball team you have the opportunity to be successful.

I'm just worried about being a good quarterback first, and being a great teammate.

Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That's the one thing I've never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.

Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

Every day, when I am working with my boys, I tell them as long as you put in your best efforts, I am there to back you. But the day I find your energy flagging on the field, the day I find you have not put in your best, that's when I will be really upset and sad.

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.