Heywood Broun Quotes

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

I don't think I'm any different than most coaches, honestly. Maybe Steve Kerr. The guy never loses.

All the managers in the world are here to win games.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

Of course managers win ball games.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

I've never been a numbers guy. Numbers don't excite me. Winning games excites me.

Phil Jackson is a mastermind, and he knows how to keep his team from being complacent.

Pep has the magic touch. He breathes football.

I want to be the guy that leads the team to victories.

Coaches understand that pressure is part of the rush of coaching. The challenge of trying to outplay your opponent is part of the fun, the adrenaline, the preparation, seeing your team evolve. It's why coaches become coaches.

My job is to coach the team and get them to try to play the best they can come April, May, and June.

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

If you can make the players better, that's what I'm about.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.