Jeremy Lin Quotes

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.

I talk to the players, either individually or as a group, what I'm feeling, and I think the players appreciate that. And I think they respond to that.

Peter Stoger is very, very inspirational, communicating a lot, being open and approachable for the players.

People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.

A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you're dealing with a lot of guys that are prideful, that think they're the best - a lot of alpha males. So, typically, you've got to have a guy that can control those guys, and, when he talks, they know he means business. He's a serious guy.

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.

All my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them.

As a coach, you never take your foot of the gas when it comes to enforcement of your culture.

A player-led team is better than a coach-led team, no doubt.

When I'm in the huddle, it is my huddle, and I mean, that's how it needs to operate.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

I believe in treating players like adults - though if some of them behave like children, you have to treat them as such! - and I think there is big respect the other way from players to the manager.

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

It takes a lot to be a good player. It takes a lot to be a winning team.

Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.

The main thing about being captain is keeping your own performance good, and then everything else should fall into place off the back of that.

It is important to have leadership groups, but at the end of the day I need to be taking the call because I'm responsible for the team and I should know exactly what I'm doing and I believe in that.

I always get saddled as a player's coach, and I'm happy about that.

If you said to me there's a top quality player who you can bring in and we are confident he will add to your squad, but you have to work with him a bit and he can be a bit fiery, then you feel if you are bringing him into a good group the group can take care of that.

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

Benitez is a coach with high expectations of his players, he demands a lot and I like that. He knows how to communicate with his players and he is intelligent.