J. B. Bickerstaff Quotes

Name one experienced coach anywhere in the world that would hand over their playbook to the other team. Unless it's a fake playbook, it just doesn't happen.

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

A couple teams will grind the shot clock down. Most of the time coaches do that, it's usually a talent deficit. They can't compete against the better teams.

You don't beat football teams. You outrecruit them.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

You've got to turn over every stone; you've got to look for every advantage. You need to make sure you're doing everything you possibly can, not just on the field but off it, to give your team an advantage - from having a sleep expert coming to talk to your team to having an independent analysis of your team done.

Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.

The way you adapt and play against different teams and different styles is going to be important.

We were super successful under Mark Sampson because teams didn't expect us to play the way we played. We were so direct and played to people's strengths.

Our players know that we try to come in each week and put ourselves in the best position to have a chance to win, and sometimes that means some people playing more than others; sometimes it means using different personnel groupings in different weeks.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

The team that wins makes minimum mistakes, and the one which loses, that one makes more mistakes than the other team.

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.

Some throws we're just trying to make in practice to see if it's something we want to move with on during the season.

Just got to win games. You've just got to find ways to win games.

You do everything you can to be successful. You know that you have to win games. It's a must. So you do the things that put your guys in the best position to be successful schematically.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.

In the Premier League, almost everyone is difficult to beat; it depends on how you begin a game and how you play in the game.

What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

Sequencing is a really big factor in preparing for a team that you've faced several times. For me, at the end of the day, I feel like if I execute, regardless if I were to use same sequencing as I have in the past against these guys, I still feel confident in my ability to have success.

There's a decision each match. I decide how we are going to play, and it depends on the opposition 30 per cent, their structure, and 70 per cent is for us.

Try to put our guys in different positions, try some different combinations, et cetera, to prepare us for the playoffs, which is what matters.