Hank Stram Quotes

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.

In order to improve our side, we need players who can make the difference.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don't win games. Players do.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

It's all about the qualities of the players. The better the players, the easier it is for the manager.

Systems, coaches, and directors or club presidents do not win games - players do, they are the only people who can make a significant difference once that game starts.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

Of course managers win ball games.

I always like to have the best players in my team.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

You want to go out there and do what's best for the team, help your team move the ball down the field, make plays, help them win football games.

The players have got to make the plays.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

When the key players in your team perform well, the team does well, too.

Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.

I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

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

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.