Becky Sauerbrunn Quotes

I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.

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

That's the job of a quarterback, to go out there and be confident with the communication of the play, in the huddle and with my play.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.

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.

It's hard to do, but you've got to be able to get your team going and prepare each week and go out and play your best and hopefully it shows in the game.

To show my quarterbacks how much I believe in them, I let them pick their favorite plays that we'll run in the game. On the nights before a game we'll sit down in a hotel conference room and we'll have six third-down calls for certain distances.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.

You want to go out there and do what's best for the team, help your team move the ball down the field, make plays, help them win football games.

You work to make sure that, in the game, everybody knows where they're supposed to be at, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if you put them in a position to be successful, that's all you can ask for.

Sometimes a manager can only do so much, as in prepare a team, and then the team have to go out there and perform.

What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.

It is up to the coaches to tell me how to play.

That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

To become a good coach, you need to win a lot.

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.

Playing with people like Cesc Fabregas makes it easy for you. He will talk to you and talk you through games.

It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'

On the pitch, I conduct and organise. I'm loud.

Honestly, I always told my coaches my whole career - we'll practice two-minute drills in practice, like, once a week and everything - I'm just like, 'Those are my favorite time of football.' I'm out there in total control, just getting everything lined up, getting everybody on the same page, and obviously, usually it's pass after pass after pass.

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 a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.