Bobby Robson Quotes

I was once in charge of the Dutch team - and then I was introduced to club football!

I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's - you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.

Manager Kit Symons sees our players daily. As a top-flight player not that long ago, Kit knows and feels the game.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching 'Monday Night Football' with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.

As a player, I had no idea whatsoever about getting a team ready for a game, what it entails.

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

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

I'm the football manager. I make all the football decisions that evolve around the game that's being played on a Saturday.

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

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

[Being a coach] is totally different, but I have a new level of respect for coaching that I didn't as a player. So much is expected of you and from your team. Everything falls on your shoulders.

Since the most important responsibility of a coach in regard to the actual playing of the game is to teach his players properly and effectively to execute the various fundamentals of the game, he is first of all a teacher.

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'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Coaching to me is correcting mistakes and trying to get your players to think. If raising your voice occasionally gets them to think better, then that's called coaching.

It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.

Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.

Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.