Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

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.

Of course managers win ball games.

I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

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

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.

When you get into the game, you're trying to win games. So you want your best players out there.

The players have got to make the plays.

Everything is up to the players and not the tactics. They're just small details that can show you the way to play.

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

Systems win you nothing, and football players win you games.

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

The team with the best players wins.

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

Every manager deserves a part of whatever success you have. They build squads, and particularly at this football club they build the style of play.

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.

Talent is what wins games.

I tell the players all the time: 'There is no magic play.' Players make the plays.

Football is played by 11 players, and unfortunately, every time, it happens that some do well, and some do worse.

The key ingredient is talent - you've got to have talent. If you look at the regular season, they've got the best record in the entire league, so they've got the talent.

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.

The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.

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 was born to play baseball.

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.