Phil Jones Quotes

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

The manager wants to show his tactics, and if I do them perfectly, he'll pick me.

I always try to field the best team.

I think Coach Kerr and his staff have done a great job with what they bring to the table.

There are a lot of good coaches in this league, and there are a lot of good coaches out there.

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

I look at the group I've got and then I decide what strengths and weaknesses they have and then I formulate an appropriate way the players can work in order to be collectively successful.

Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

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

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

It's all about the qualities of the players. The better the players, the easier it is for the manager.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

My job is to work hard, together with my players, to improve.

Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.