Lamar Hunt Quotes

There's two sides to the game, and you have to do the ugly side as well. If you're getting beat, and you're conceding the goals that we're getting beaten by, then it's because you're not defending and shutting people down well enough.

You don't have to commit a lot of fouls, especially if you are 1-0 down. If you are 1-0 down, then don't commit 10 fouls in the next ten minutes.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There's times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you're passing it.

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

You take your shots when you have them, and I threw a lot of touchdowns, but I'm always going to take care of the football in the red zone.

Spalletti made a difference for me. He gives great importance to the details and, at minimum, wants the goalkeeper to know how to play with the ball at his feet.

Coach Kiffin calls plays based on matchups and what he sees.

If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don't want to be like that.

I like the Klopp mentality but at the same time, I like the Pep culture about football because always we need intensity with and without the ball.

You can play just as offensively with one striker as with two.

At the end of the game, coaches always talk about what could have been done differently with the game plan.

We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.

You better not kick a field goal if you have a lousy defense.

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

In golf, you keep trying to score well when you're ahead. In basketball, they don't quit shooting when they're ahead. In hockey, they don't quit shooting the puck when they're ahead. And in boxing, you don't quit punching when you're ahead. But in football, somehow magically, you're supposed to quit playing when you're ahead.

You just have to learn that you can't always go and win that ball and there are certain moments to do it.

Mourinho is a coach who likes more the ball practice, works the ball possession and makes short games.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

While it's great for a quarterback to have athletic ability, his goal is to get the ball out of his hand, orchestrate the offense and not allow his ability to stand in the way of the offense running efficiently.

You don't want to give the defensive back any signals about what route you're going to run.

I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.

I need to work on timing and the pace of the game. I need to know when to slow it down and speed it up.

There's no doubt that position is a very important aspect of the game. But some players take this concept to the extreme and consequently miss opportunities when they refuse to play hands out of position.