Didier Deschamps Quotes

Continuity is one of the hardest things to come by in the NFL.

You need continuity at clubs.

We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

It definitely helps when you play regularly instead of coming in and out of the team.

It is sometimes better to stay with the same team... for stability.

I just want to play week in, week out.

We think continuity's important.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that's big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there's so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

I like to keep my team together.

The more stable you are, if you have the same manager, mostly the same players, it makes it easier for the club to play as best as they can. It gives a bit of comfort.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

During a season, you have different moments, up and down, but you have to hope in a good team to have good stability.

Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.

The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.

I'm the glue that holds everything together.

… maintain the integrity and flexibility of our teachings

Continuity is important in sports.

Separation, I think, in an early-stage company or a startup environment is not a good thing. You need to basically live and breathe the entire environment.

Sometimes keeping a squad together can improve spirit and with it performances.