Graham Potter Quotes

You always want all good players at your team.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

You can be the best coach in the world, but if you don't have the players, you cannot get results.

Obviously, it's important for any team that wants to be really successful to try to have the best players that they possibly can in all positions, and I think Alisson is definitely one of the best in the world in his position.

At the end of the day, if you're not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you're probably not going to win many championships.

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

I think that's the philosophy of all top teams - to educate young, top players and to give them the possibility to play.

I think you build a team and a roster around the depth. That's what makes a team really good.

You want to win in the NBA you want to build a culture and teams will always do that and try to win. It's cutthroat. All 30 teams want to be that way whether they are rebuilding, have young players, have a style of play. It doesn't matter, everybody wants to win.

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.

It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

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

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

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

The head coach is the chemist.

I want to be on a successful team, and I know that paying one or two or three players premium hurts your chances of being able to bring in extra talent.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

Sports is such a cyclical thing; it's often feast or famine. But what you try and do as an owner is build a winning organization.

I think there's always enough right in front of me worrying about who's playing the minutes tomorrow, but you've always got to have an eye on a year or two from now and what those guys will do if you think, 'Well, let's give them a full year at the 905 and see how they progress.'

It's my responsibility to put a team on the floor that will win, and that attracts players.