Chris Mullin Quotes

Newsflash for any of the current, past or future Survivors out there... when you contemplate strategizing about the other team, the best idea is to shut up and keep it to yourself. You're welcome; this bill is in the mail.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

There are two real keys to winning. You've got to have good players: no coach won with bad players. You win with good players. That is number one. Number two is, when we are playing, let's say we are playing Michigan, and they had a really good press: we've got to solve that press.

We have to win everything. The last time we went to South Africa, we had an opportunity to win the series, but things didn't work out.

In this business, a lot of coaches are running around thinking they're the reason their teams are winning.

If the opponent can score 10 goals, then we need to change something quickly.

It's like I was taught and I'm always saying it. Offense wins games, defense wins championships.

You can play perfect football, lots of one-touch stuff, and you lose. But that's not what you want, you want to win.

As a manager you're going to put out the player you think is going to best help you win the game.

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

The thing that surprised me is you hear a lot about NBA guys, do they really want to be coached? My experience is they really do want to be coached. They want a plan: 'How are we going to win the game?' And they'll follow that plan.

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.

Our goal is to outplay the other team's defense every game - it doesn't matter who we're playing.

I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.

If we play in the right way and do what the manager asks us then we will win games.

Some days, you don't score, but then you have to make sure you don't concede.

I know what it takes to win, and I've helped lead teams to winning cultures.

It's difficult when you play the best teams in the world. You have to be strong as a team and defend and get clean sheets.

It's about winning the ball, making this step or making the right decision. If you make all of these steps then wins, a final position in the table will come on its own.

Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.

As long as my team wins games, who cares what people say?

Obviously, you want to win a trophy and finish as high up the table as possible. But it's important to focus game-by-game.