Robin Roberts Quotes

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

I have told the PCB that I want total independence to work with a free mind and pick the best players, and they have assured me it will be done.

I always fielded the team that I felt had the greatest chances of success.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important.

To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn't possible.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

I do not decide who plays.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

Open all the debates that you want, but I think that the players that I select, and in whom I have total confidence, deserve a minimum amount of respect.

A coach was managing the Newbury team, and he wanted me to play for his local team, and from there, I did it at district level, and then I got picked for Southampton.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

If I was to become a manager, I would not want someone else to be signing the players for the team that my job depended on.

You need always guts to put youngsters in the squad and also in the line-up.

I was always taught that a catcher has to be the brains of the team.

As a manager you're going to put out the player you think is going to best help you win the game.

When you have a chance to get Phil Jackson to run your team, you just do it, plain and simple.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

I have faith in the players, who have paid me back on the pitch. I have brought in young players because they have a lot of potential. I'm the only one who decides, and I take decisions based on sporting reasons.