Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team

I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

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.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

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.

You have to let the team develop. You can't say, 'Oh, I got empty seats, I'm going to change the team.' It just doesn't work that way.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

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'd be lying if I said I never had any issues with players but at some point you have to stamp your authority because if you're good at taking free-kicks, for example, they should let you take them.

Popovich is always talking about team.

It's hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

There's always been conflict, inherent conflict between players and coaches.

The leadership aspect of U.S.A. basketball has really helped me out a lot.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team