Chuck Noll Quotes

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

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

I want to take TSA to the next level.

I knew Portuguese football and I knew that Rio Ave was a medium-sized club but I also knew they are organised off the pitch. We felt that we could achieve something special playing in a different way.

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.

I feel like I've done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.

I had to create a team of people who had worked in this industry for other banks. What I brought to that team was ICICI's strategic thinking, but when it came to domain knowledge or product nuances, I had to learn from the team.

People talk about flip charts, tactic boards and other rubbish like that. But the truth is that as a manager you just need to get the best out of the players at your disposal.

I have told the PCB that I want total independence to work with a free mind and pick the best players, and they have assured me it will be done.

I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.

To improve teams like Newcastle, if you do the right things, it is enough to be stronger and bigger and compete.

It's part of the beauty of the job in dealing with this is you have to have a plan, and that's why you can't only train 11 players; you train your whole team.

Once you identify positional needs, then I think, then, what you do is, you be very selective on how you go about acquiring those players. You have to look at the resources available on how to acquire those players, and then, if you can, go acquire those assets that can best help this team get over the hump.

The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

I've run a very successful business, and I think I can also run a very successful team.

The one thing you have to be careful of is trying to do what other teams and players are doing when you don't have the people to do it yourself.

You buy the right players for the system that you believe will be successful.

One thing that will never change as a manager is that there is so much game stuff and management stuff to deal with that you want good information.

You always want all good players at your team.

The most important thing in IPL is to select the players. You don't get much time to develop a team so it's important to pick the right players.

Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.

Obviously when a new manager comes in, he's got to instill his own ideas within the team and with his set-up for the games.

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

I think what Brendan Rodgers did was right; I thought it was successful. He was able to show that he was able to change several players, prove to everybody in the team that no-one's guaranteed a spot, rest a lot of key players, and at the same time walk away with a very reputable result.