Eran Zahavi Quotes

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

I have to try to help lead my team to win by any means.

I'd rather walk off the park with two goals instead of one.

I think as a central defender you grow as a player.

I am not a usual coach: it doesn't matter for me who are scoring the goals.

I just want to be good, help my team-mates win the games, and score a lot of goals.

I feel like I have built different aspects of my game, not just scoring goals.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

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 be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

More eyes on the court is better than just two eyes. There's always a time for one voice. But when the guys are working, I believe in those guys working and making the players better. Hands-on.

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

I had a breakthrough in my football life. Now I switch to the left. I make goals. I pass. I am evolving.

To have a high basketball IQ, I think you have to be unselfish, but also selfish at the same time. To be able to say, okay, I know this is going to work, so let's do it.

I'm kind of like the quarterback: being able to orchestrate a lot of things out there on the field and being able to run different schemes and coverages.

Hopefully, I can keep scoring more goals, make more assists, break more records and help my team, which is the most important thing.

In a team, you need players who are technically good and can perform under pressure.

It's a personal challenge for me, to give the best of myself, to win titles, to score goals for my team, and to help when needed.

If the owner wants to support the team, that's okay. If the owner can be on the pitch and score a couple of goals, it would be better!

I prefer to play as a striker, but I will do my best and try to win the game for my team as long as I am on the pitch.

I know I can shoot when I want. I know I'm going to have the ball. It's about seeing what the team needs at that time.

A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments.