Kevin Keegan Quotes

You cannot just allow your team to stink.

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

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

A player-led team is better than a coach-led team, no doubt.

When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

I think the tone that the head coach sets transcends to the team.

I've won midget championships, a junior-league title, two World Junior Championships and some other minor-hockey championships, but I don't think teams win because I'm on them.

Coaches are important, but the senior players at a club are crucial.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

Every good German team has strong leadership in the side.

Each team is different but you give yourself a better chance if you keep the team intact.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

If head coaches weren't important to the success of a team, then owners wouldn't fire them all the time.

I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.

I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.

When you have a coach that is a competitor, that wants to win more than anything else, it really carries over to the team.

I think Mark Hughes is the type of manager people want to play for.

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

The team only goes as far as their quarterback takes them.

I've always found that in a team of 15 people, it's a little different than in a team of 40 or 50 people. If I name two or three people captains, inevitably you're disempowering more than you're empowering.

As far as Sao Paulo are concerned, I've never played for a club as well-structured as this.

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.