Steve Nash Quotes

Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

I think when you're a very good defensive team you give yourself a chance every night, on the road, at home, it's a big factor and something to build on.

You don't want your opponent to score. You don't want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.

We have a good team, and I think we'll have a good season this year.

The real good teams and the real great teams find a way to win.

You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Defensively, from a team standpoint, I didn't feel I played very well. Very rarely was I satisfied with how I played.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

I just think you can't get caught up with who's on the other side. Everybody in the NFL is good. Every team is good.

We cannot take responsibility for every goal we concede, we all need to do our part across the field to ensure we win as a team.

We players are very well aware that being a favourite won't win you a game, that your jersey won't win you a game.

In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.

A point guard can carry a team - if he has all the right stuff.

For me, all I want to do is win. Whether I make a hundred tackles or one tackle, all I want to do is win and for the defense to perform well.

When you look at older teams in the finals, Miami and San Antonio, they're not really the most explosive or athletic team but they're always in the right position defensively.

I didn't want to be part of a tanking team. I just wanted to win and just work to be a good team.

It's a war of wills out there on the court. You have to have a stronger will than your opponent, and every guy on your team has to feel that same way against the guy he's guarding.

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

I think when you're a very good defensive team - it's very rare a team wins a championship when you're not a very good defensive team.