John Dorsey Quotes

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

As a captain and as a player I wanted to lead the team well and score runs, because I know the team still depends on me very much.

As a coach, you never take your foot of the gas when it comes to enforcement of your culture.

I want to put expectations on our team that are high. That's kind of the way I've always been, and I want to put those expectations on our team as well.

I think every player gives a bit extra when he sees that his manager is fighting, too.

There's something to be said with your quarterback your leader being there on Day 1.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

The team's aims are do to the best we can basically.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

I have to try to help lead my team to win by any means.

I try to prove that I am an important player every day and game after game.

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

I'm honoured to train players that want more from their football than just raising their small wages.

Coach Calipari pushes his players, and that's why his teams are successful.

Quarterbacks like guys who try to do everything they can for them and put it on the line for them. So that's what I try to do.

The only thing that interests me is my team.

I want to play every day and help the team get to where we want to be.

Every player at Bayern Munich wants to play and should play - they all have good reasons.

I'm ready to accept the pressures of captaincy.

As a captain, I am concerned about my team and how I perform. I have hopes from my own self and very high hopes from my team members.

Teamwork. That's the biggest lesson you can learn from competing in NCAA gymnastics. Everyone just has to work together, you have to trust in everyone, and everyone has to push you to become the gymnast you want to be.

There are players whose only target is their day off, and that is a big problem.

I know what a championship locker room looks like, what a championship team requires.