Lorrie Fair Quotes

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.

I played a lot of games at a young age and I feel like I'm an older player in the side now. I communicate a lot more on the pitch and in the training room now.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

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.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

I think Coach Kerr and his staff have done a great job with what they bring to the table.

For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

It's hard to be a leader right away, but playing quarterback, you have to.

You don't just come in and say, 'Bam, I'm mature; I'm the leader.' It took time for me to grow into this and learn how to talk to certain players and how to handle certain situations.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

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

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

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.

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

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

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

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

'Mighty Ducks' was a great experience, and I don't shy away from that.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

I have very good executives and great children. They're very good.

Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.