B. J. Armstrong Quotes

A big part of me has been tied to coaching and I want to get into coaching and make a difference that way.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

I will miss the day to day stuff because I love coaching. I love being out on the pitch.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

I never lost the desire to coach.

You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading.

How do you recruit a player if you don't really know what it is that you are trying to do? How do you convince a player of the way you want to play if you don't have clarity yourself over why you want to do it?

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

I would love to go into coaching someday.

I've been a coach for 30 years and I've been around football my entire life.

The most important thing for me is to value the players and try to improve them individually in order to improve the team.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

I know myself that when there is a manager who knows how to get the best out of you then it's different - and that's why I chose Villa. I wanted to work with Steve Bruce again.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

I started out wanting to coach football.

Football coaches don't have real problems.