Nick Nurse Quotes

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.

The coaches can only put us in the right position, but it's up to the players to take the action.

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

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

You create a big-club mentality with the trust of the players, the trust that the team will get results, and then, when results are not good, the trust to continue with your idea.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

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.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that's not necessarily taking care of your job but making sure you're preparing everyone else to go out and play well. And make sure you have them in the right mindset when they step on the field.

When you're a manager, we sometimes speak too much about tactics, but the most difficult thing for a manager is to get the best from his best players.

It's hard to do, but you've got to be able to get your team going and prepare each week and go out and play your best and hopefully it shows in the game.

To show my quarterbacks how much I believe in them, I let them pick their favorite plays that we'll run in the game. On the nights before a game we'll sit down in a hotel conference room and we'll have six third-down calls for certain distances.

When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players. This is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well, and the players should understand this.

Guardiola can get the best out of everyone and that's why he is what he is.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.

When the coach can get the trust and the confidence of a team to believe in him, and everyone accepts what they're doing for the team, the good and the great of the team, it usually works out.

The best player's responsibility is to unite and inspire your teammates to play up to their full maximum ability, and that never occurs if you try to separate yourself as part of the problem.

Obviously if your head coach expects more of you, you bring it to the table.

We need to trust our coaches. Unless we trust them we can't get the result.

Sometimes a manager can only do so much, as in prepare a team, and then the team have to go out there and perform.

If your players believe in what you're telling them, no matter how trivial the subject, no matter how important the subject, then it influences the way they behave, and that will influence results.

Coaches have plans and structures, and if you're not in those plans you shouldn't take it personally.

The most important thing is that you find a way to bring your thoughts into the hearts of the players. The tactical details are important because they can make a big difference.