Erik Spoelstra Quotes

I have been in many teams that have had loads of talent but did not make it through and been with teams that did not have that much talent and ended up being champions.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

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

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

Every player has their challenge to help the team. They all have a challenge individually and collectively to improve.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

I played a very background role in terms of trying to get the environment together but Eoin Morgan and Trevor Bayliss have done a great job.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

In order to be successful you need to have a good team with a good core, so my whole thing is that I was always encouraging my teammates, and I try to lead them by example to play together, to play as a team.

It is my job to work with the players we have and try to improve them as a team and move the country forward.

We need to find ways to grow as a team and get better to be the best team possible.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

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

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.