Jim Evans Quotes

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

I don't think I was a fine game coach. I'm trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.

I'm by no means an expert at coaching high school football. I'm doing the best I can in Year 1. But I've already learned a lot of lessons and I imagine I'll keep learning them.

My job is to show them clearly what they are doing, and what they are doing wrong on the pitch. To help them know why and understand why, even if you prepare and understand the plan, why you are doing always the same mistakes.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

Every coach will have good and bad.

My job as a manager is to get the best out of your players. Sometimes you get it wrong, and you won't get the response that you want, but we all face that every single day.

I think every time I'm with the team, even in a World Cup, as a coach, you're constantly evaluating.

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach.

I've had good players in my time. I really have.

A captain shouldn't be chosen on the amount of goals he's going to score.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.