Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?

My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

I think the NBA just, overall, when you need somebody to blame, the first person that you go to is the coach. But at the end of the day, you need the right players that match each other. Not just the best players. Chemistry helps.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

There are teams spending a lot of money and buying top players from all over the world but it is not about money - it is about your team-mates.

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.

It is not always possible, but the best plan is always to keep hold of your best players.

At the end of the day, Coach Belichick does a great job of bringing in people he knows that will fit well.

It's the same for any team... you have to keep your best players.

It is about building the best team you can, not just one to play in the Championship. You look short-term because you need to be competitive, that's the nature of the business. But it's exciting to have players whose potential is exciting.

The head coach is the chemist.

I would not put Dak Prescott on the bench. I would leave him as the starter, and I wouldn't have a problem with that at all.

General managers - I like to talk about the 'golden gut': general managers that not only can have a sense for the players that are going to perform beyond what people expect and get team chemistry right, but they also have to be able to make trades.

I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

We as a club should be aspiring to have the best players playing for us. We've had that in the past. We're in for players if the manager wants to be.

It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.

The most important thing is that Spain have a good team no matter who plays. It is always nice to see your name spoken but the important thing is that the national team does well. But having good players for every position is important because there are always injuries, drops of form.

We have to talk about the players we have.

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

You have to figure out that balance between younger players and veteran players, star players, and All-Star players, really a team effort. And then you have to be lucky.