Carlos Ruiz Quotes

I believe I am a player that can organise the game well for my team.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

I'd like to teach my players how to play and not just run plays.

Football management is about managing people.

Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.

I learnt about being physically fit, captaincy, and the things that really matter when it comes to being a leader and a batsman.

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I'm still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I'm going to see things. They're not going to see what I see. So it's being able to translate that and help them see what I'm seeing.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

As a catcher, you can't be afraid. You gotta make fast decisions.

You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that's not necessarily taking care of your job but making sure you're preparing everyone else to go out and play well. And make sure you have them in the right mindset when they step on the field.

A good coach is someone who can break down players, someone who is good with angles, setting up points on the court.