Vint Cerf Quotes

I say it often, that I feel like I'm just living out the Story Mode in 'Smackdown vs. RAW' that I always used to play.

Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.

Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.

I think it's very useful when you want to be the team who create. You need to create this superiority at the back when you build up using the goalkeepers.

I want the ball in my hands, throwing the ball, making decisions.

When you have a small, balanced squad, you can work better. First of all everyone is involved in every squad list, a meeting can be a good training session.

I look at the group I've got and then I decide what strengths and weaknesses they have and then I formulate an appropriate way the players can work in order to be collectively successful.

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

Every team has problems. Championship teams have problems and whatnot.

Whoever's in the game has got to be ready to play, take the scout serious and understand what we're doing. If you don't know what to do, ask questions.

I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

You have to communicate - you have to click - to find automatic reactions with your teammates.

If you give time and space to players, they will make good decisions and score goals.

My job as the associate head coach was to make sure the head coach has everything he needs. That's my job. Whatever he needs me to do and whatever I see fit to do to help the team win.

I like to let the ball do the talking.

In football a championship team is never bought, it's built with time and patience.

I've learned so much whether it was, I played a lot of team sports, so being part of a team, learning how to be a leader on different teams, and how to deal with the ebb and flow of different games.

The teams that you come across, they are not physically super-human, they are just very good. So it is asking what do we about that. How do we take on the challenge?

It takes a lot to be a good player. It takes a lot to be a winning team.

It does make it very clear, you know, what can happen if you do have... the right people, the right skill mix, that are trained and they're assembled in this team and they work together under the right leadership. You know, what a miracle can happen. And that's what was the case of Apollo 13.

I think everybody individually does things a little differently. As a quarterback, every quarterback has their strengths and their weaknesses.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.

In football, as in life, as in business, everything can be talked about and discussed.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.