Mike McCarthy Quotes

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

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

There are teams spending a lot of money and buying top players from all over the world but it is not about money - it is about your team-mates.

That's the thing: To be successful in the NFL, you have to start by having a quality coach and a quarterback that can kind of lead the team. If you have the trust of the quarterback, then you can build everywhere else.

You can be the best coach in the world, but if you don't have the players, you cannot get results.

It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.

In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.

We didn't lose a game at home for two years. What are we missing? We have the product on the field. We're exciting.

I think you build a team and a roster around the depth. That's what makes a team really good.

In the NBA, you're taking a bunch of different talents, and you're managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That's why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out.

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

The more better players we have at Barcelona, the better it is for the team and coach.

It is possible to sign many great players, but you cannot buy a team.

I think that's kind of the common theme when you talk about any good team. Not only do you have the talent and the type of players that allow you to win that many games, but you have to win the ugly ones.

I'm really excited by this opportunity to continue helping develop and work with some of the great young players we have coming through in the first-team environment and to work alongside Unai and his coaching team to help Arsenal win trophies.

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.

Every player that comes at Juventus becomes better; every player that comes wins trophies.

Like I've always said, in football the most important thing is the quality of minutes not the quantity.

You have to figure out that balance between younger players and veteran players, star players, and All-Star players, really a team effort. And then you have to be lucky.

Barcelona is one of the best teams in the world. When you play in a team like this, you have more chance to show your performance.

Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.

For a team of Evergrande's level, fans hope to have the top coaches and the coach will definitely face various pressures.

The decisions you make are based on what you think is better for the team and the player.

You can't criticize a coach until he fails to win with players he recruited.