Eric Reid Quotes

The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.

Every week we work really hard on that, in our defensive and offensive set pieces, and in our routines as well.

Whenever a team has three weeks to prepare, and it's an excellent coach and coaching staff and great players, you've got to work on it all.

In my opinion, there's nothing better than practicing a play all week and then going on the field and thinking, 'This is going to be a touchdown.'

We need to be always prepared for every match.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

There are few secrets in football. So execute.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

I'll put it this way: I couldn't just go out the practice without looking at the playbook, without looking at notes. I wouldn't be able to do much.

I have to learn the plays before I can worry about getting passes thrown to me.

The better you can prepare your players and the more you can put their minds to it is really important.

You've just got to read your read keys and rep it in practice and then just do your job on the field.

I think switching is like a lot of things. You can do it - it's a game plan - but you better do it well. You better practise it.

Once I'm at the training ground, I'm focused, preparing for the next game.

That's the job of a quarterback, to go out there and be confident with the communication of the play, in the huddle and with my play.

I think that people that don't really understand the game of football and are just fans that think people just show up on Saturday and go, I don't think they understand the work that we put in here and what our schemes are and what we're trying to do.

You work to make sure that, in the game, everybody knows where they're supposed to be at, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if you put them in a position to be successful, that's all you can ask for.

We ignore noise, and we really just to try hunker down on preparation, our practice, and going out and trying to play our best games on Sundays.

Details make the difference in football today. It is part of our process.

It's different when you practice, obviously. That's why exhibition games are a chance to see what you're trying to do.

You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.

It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.