Alex Bregman Quotes

I just wanted to keep the game close until we scored some runs.

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

How are you gonna score if somebody doesn't drive in the runs?

If you're winning and can stay on the field offensively and move the ball, that's what we want.

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

When Joker hits his three, it opens up the game for everybody.

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

There's two facets of this game. You know, if I'm not making shots, OK, then I have to do something on defense. So if I'm missing shots or making shots, it doesn't affect my overall game.

One thing I know is if I have my best player, I'm not going to let another team take him out of the game so I can throw to somebody else. I'm going to find a way to get my best player involved so they can't take him away.

We always think that the next match is the most important one.

Even though I am not going to coach in the future, if I had to pass on a recommendation, it would be to base your game on having a strong defence.

Both sides of the game, defensively and offensively, are important.

I have to make sure that we're in the right plays and I can get the ball out quickly and get into our playmakers' hands.

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

It's a mystery coming out each and every game to try and figure out how a team is going to guard me and how I'm going to dictate how my team wins.

I wish I could go up every single time and have guys on base.

In the Premier League, almost everyone is difficult to beat; it depends on how you begin a game and how you play in the game.

Football can give everyone who loves the game their great moments and most dreadful disappointments. All it takes is a couple of bad injuries or decisions to turn a season and that's just the unforgiving nature of sport.

Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

At Golden State, it was basically a guard-oriented offense and it wasn't either around me or in my direction.