Bob Stoops Quotes

I don't agree that there are big teams and small teams in the Premier League. There are just a lot of good teams.

I don't think the bottom beats the top very often in the Premier League, if ever.

If you analyze the German league, the Spanish league, the Italian league, there are two or three teams that stand out above the rest, and the other teams have a regular level.

The cap is a discussion about competitiveness, not about money. It's about trying to bring the top teams down to a level where the midfield teams feel they can compete. The reality is that whatever the level of spend there will always be teams that run at the front and teams that run at the back.

Equalising performance between teams runs completely counter to the idea of F1 and would be very unfair for us.

That's the English Premier League. You can win against the best teams and then lose against the last.

In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.

The regular season games are much more intense. And also, I believe that in 16 games, some teams separate themselves. The good teams separate themselves from the not-so-good teams. The longer the season is, the bigger that separation will get.

The top clubs in the Premier League benefit very much from the fact that there are six teams on a very high level. They have so many games against each other so that they practically play Champions League the whole year. That helps them very much to persist in the international games.

I'm afraid that if they bring the Sonics back, what kind of team are they going to put on the court? Are they going to put the effort out? If they bring the team back, are they going to really put a good team out there? Or do we just want any team?

The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.

In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are going to lose games.

Fifty points at home and 50 points away is unheard of as a team and I'd love to keep improving.

If you have an elite defense, that can be your third star, so to speak.

When you compare Arsenal and City, it's not the same. With City, I'm playing in a better team.

We know St. Louis is a great club. They have been for a long time.

In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.

I'm really pleased with WPS and the quality of players and the teams.

In every sport you need a break and England seem to be the only cricket country which doesn't get one.

You don't want a team going around the league just thinking they can beat you by 30, 40 points every time that you play them.

The difference between an 8-8 team and a team that goes 12-4 is not that much, and I think we realize that.

I think when people say Madrid are playing well and Barca are not and vice-versa, or when one wins the Champions League, it's better than the other, I don't think that makes sense. Everyone takes their own path.

There are a lot more teams in the Spanish league, and the biggest transformation came in the English women's league when the amount of teams got cut down.

I've been playing basketball for a long time, so I know when the energy isn't there and I need to step up and get the team going.

After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived