Sam Allardyce Quotes

If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

I want to build a team who can play home and away the same.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

We have to talk about the players we have.

When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.

When I was a player, it was important to target the first few friendlies and plant a seed in the mind of the gaffer.

A lot of athletes want to have a break, but they don't do it.

If you are the coach of a national team, you have to evaluate players based on what they do on the pitch.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.

You need good fitness from the players and the organisational structure has to be there from early on in pre-season because the games come so quickly that you don't have much time on the grass with the players to shuffle the pack tactically.

I've taken two weeks off before I've played a major, and I've played two straight weeks before a major as well. I definitely feel it's important, whether I've taken time off or played right before, that I take necessary rest time in the weeks before the tournament.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

I have experience and have been in Europe many times, so I know squad rotation is necessary to make everyone in the side stronger.

I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.

Every team I've played on has players-only meetings, players staff meetings, so this is part of the process.

To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles