Bob Stoops Quotes

Everybody in the league has someone up in the box, or guys on the sidelines trying to steal calls. It's just like baseball. If you've got guys who can do, you do it.

I think what we've tried to preach to our players is we're going to let the best players play.

When you go into the really big games you look at your team and think 'where are we weak, where are we vulnerable.'

The bigger, stronger, faster and meaner my players are, the better I coach.

It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?

Most coaches' attention to detail is very good; it's their job. They have to analyse teams, and they have to analyse their own team.

When you are one of the best coaches in the world, it is normal to attract bad reviews if you lose a couple of games.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

When you have your roster set up different ways, you really just have to examine the roster, find out what their strengths and weakness are and hopefully you take your roster and the vision you want to implement of how you want to play and you can tweak your roster to create that.

Our players know that we try to come in each week and put ourselves in the best position to have a chance to win, and sometimes that means some people playing more than others; sometimes it means using different personnel groupings in different weeks.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

You always want all good players at your team.

We want to be strong and we want to be in a position to maximise the potential of the players in every game because it's a long season with 46 league games.

It is always good to win the game before the break for internationals.

During the regular season, you don't have the sort of time you do in the playoffs to prepare for people, so you've got to go to your strengths.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

Us coaches love to have as many players available as possible.

This is an Olympic-level type of sport and it needs to be cleaned up.

If the be-all and end-all of your ability is, 'Have you got a trophy to your name,' I find that hard to understand. It's so naive in terms of what the job of being a football coach is all about.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

The whole thing about F1 that the bad boy is the winner is wrong.

Every player wants to play more than 45 minutes, but it's the decision of the coach. You have to work hard.

Athletics set the right sentiment for a clean and believable sport.

Being an agitator gives me an opportunity to draw penalties against the other team. That's one part that brings emotion to my game.

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.