Pat Burns Quotes

To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

No quarterback goes out there and plays well on his own.

Since I was a D-team backup quarterback in seventh grade, I've loved the game.

There's always a good point guard in this league.

I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.

As a captain, you sit on the sidelines and it's evident the best place to bat is up front.

Coach K was fine with the way I played defense.

This is the world you live in when you're a football player, an athlete. You want someone to discipline you. You want to have consistency. You want a guy that puts you in position so that you can have success.

I can't even count to five when I say my proper friends in football.

I love the game of basketball; I love coaching. The attention, being on TV, all that stuff, that's not what it's about for me.

The job as a coach is difficult.

There are a lot of places you can play quarterback and you won't know. You won't know if you're good or bad because there's just not a chance to find out.

But when it comes to things of the mind, things like coaching, game-planning, coming up with offensive and defensive schemes, there's no reason why a woman couldn't be in the mix and shouldn't be in the mix.

We had a great staff in college, so after I got to the league, I'd already seen stuff I knew. Then it was enhanced, playing the game with great guys like Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs, Haloti Ngata, Chris McAlister.

I've said this time and time again: Dante Scarnecchia is the best offensive line coach in the NFL.

At an unusually young age, I read 'Instant Replay' by Jerry Kramer, which talked a lot about the Green Bay Packers and Vince Lombardi. From there I was really more a fan of coaches than teams and players.

I am a professional footballer, and it's a game where the coach decides where you can be most beneficial for the team. As long as I am attacking, I am happy! I know what Jose Mourinho decides will be best for me personally and for the team.

It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

You can come up with whatever tactics you want as a coach but if you don't have the tools to execute you will struggle, and if you don't have willing players that are ready to commit to the cause than you will struggle.

You play football to enjoy the game and the manager wants to be happy on the sidelines watching unbelievable football.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

I always want to show them I can play football.

I was a competitor as a football player and I'm a competitor as a coach.