Austin Seferian-Jenkins Quotes

Missing a game or getting a little bit of a bump up or getting a scolding once in a while puts everybody in their right place.

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

The first thing I usually do after a fight is apologize to my coaches because I didn't do one damn thing they told me to do.

Criticism comes with the territory when you don't win games.

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

You would not want me on your football team.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

Win it, or it's start all over around here.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

Continuity is important in sports.

People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we've had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.

I follow the roles.

Strikers can't score every week, much as they would like to.

Nobody is guaranteed to be a starter; thinking that would be a mistake.

Those who can keep achieving results are the big players at the big clubs. If you cannot get the results, you just can't play and move away.

I've always said it's just a game of cricket. The only pressure I get is when I feel I've let the team down.

I think the toughest job in football is always to be the starter, because everybody looks to you for guidance.

I like structure, and I like discipline and people doing the right thing.

If you win a game, everyone is happy, and if you lose, everyone is watching you.

If you lose three or four in a row, people start talking about retirement. They are not used to this sport like they are used to tennis. If you take a look at how many times Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer lost, it's all part of the game. Soccer is no different: teams go through bad times and then rise again.

My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.