Sparky Anderson Quotes

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

Of course managers win ball games.

When building a strong team, you need a strong leader.

What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.

Having the team with leaders - John Terry is one, Gareth Barry is a leader - is very, very important. These players helped me a lot.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

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

What is important is that the team continues to win their games.

A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don't realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It's important to have guys who have been there before.

It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

The responsibility will always go with the manager - you put out the team.

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

I have my goals, I have some things I want to achieve next basketball season individually. But the number one thing is always winning games. If you win games then everything else will take care of itself. You know nobody wants to see you guys score 30 and then lose every game.

The point guard is always the leader on the floor, regardless: the extension out there on the floor for the coach.

I have experience and have been in Europe many times, so I know squad rotation is necessary to make everyone in the side stronger.

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.

It's great to have great practices during the week, but you gotta make sure you are performing on game day and making those plays for your team.

Obviously, people say offense wins games, defenses win championships. But I think, at the end of the day, if you score more points than the other team, you're going to win.

I know what it takes to win, and I've helped lead teams to winning cultures.

Arsenal is a team that needs good footballers and leaders on the field.

When I played for Barcelona, I knew that some home games were going to be easier than some others, as the team had plenty of confidence. That confident mentality helped Barcelona players win games.

As long as my team wins games, who cares what people say?

I am the one to admit that I didn't put the ball where it needed to be all the time. But, you know, given the circumstances that we had in Wyoming, we won two back-to-back eight-win seasons. It was a place where we ended up winning football games.