Chris Coleman Quotes

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

I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?

I think that's kind of the common theme when you talk about any good team. Not only do you have the talent and the type of players that allow you to win that many games, but you have to win the ugly ones.

At Kentucky, you have to be a competitor. If you're not, you're going to look weak. You're going to look like you don't belong.

All the top guys are complete players, and if I'm not, I won't be there.

I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don't let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what's going on or what people are talking about.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

I always tried to be a guy that plays hard and was committed to giving his all, on and off the court. So that's something I'm really proud of.

You don't get to the top in professional sport without being hard and tough, but I do that in my way. I don't shout or scream, but I am determined and I will push harder than 99 per cent of cricketers in training.

I can control how hard I play. This is how I respond to coaching. This is how I respond to my teammates. If I focus on that, the other things that come with that are going to come.

You can't expect a coach to win with guys that don't even care about the game.

You need talent and good coaching to be successful in the NBA.

My main focus is playing football and giving it all I got. I'm trying to go out there and make plays and help my team win.

Guys that are competitive and love to play the game of football and love their teammates, you can't have enough of those guys on your team.

Some players can just act like 'whatever' off the field and then play amazing. Not many, but some. I just wasn't wired like that.

The difference between first-class cricket and international cricket isn't skill, it's attitude and the way you go about things.

At the end of the day, the NFL teams should fall in love with me based on who I am as a person, what I can offer them, and what this game means to me.

I know I'm not the biggest guy or the fastest guy, but you've got to bring something to the table that someone else is not. I love football too much.

If I had all the qualities that the newspapers are talking about, I'd be the best player in history.

I'm not going to play with a filter anymore; I'm going to play the game I need to play to be a great player for my team.

Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.

To me, I just play baseball, whether I have the contract or not.