Gordon Strachan Quotes

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

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

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

Coach OB is fun to play for. He's very tough on you. He wants you to be successful.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

The better players you get, the better coach you are.

Every player has their challenge to help the team. They all have a challenge individually and collectively to improve.

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

Coach Calipari pushes his players, and that's why his teams are successful.

I would be a very demanding coach. I wouldn't yell and scream, but I want players that want what I want. And that's why I couldn't coach, 'cause I know how hard it is and I know how hard I want you to play. But everyone's not going to do what I want.

It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.

I want to make sure I do everything in my power to be a better teammate and player.

You know, I have a responsibility to my team that if I'm going to be on the floor, then I have to make a difference.

I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do.

How can I tell the eighth or ninth man on the team that I want you to work hard every day and I want you to improve and get better, but while you're doing that you're not going to get any minutes?

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

I've just got to be the best player that I can be and worry about what I've got to do to help out the team, and be the best team out there we can be, and the best player I can be out there on the field to help out the team.

When you're a player, you want the manager to know your quality and to want you.

You can't expect a coach to win with guys that don't even care about the game.

As a captain and as a player I wanted to lead the team well and score runs, because I know the team still depends on me very much.

In every team, you have to win the respect of your team-mates, working a lot and really sweat blood.