Adam Thielen Quotes

I tell the players all the time: 'There is no magic play.' Players make the plays.

Everything is up to the players and not the tactics. They're just small details that can show you the way to play.

I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don't win games. Players do.

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

As a quarterback, you've got a huge responsibility: You're touching the ball every single play. You have such a big impact on deciding the game, just in your decision-making and how you are with the football and your fundamentals.

Systems, coaches, and directors or club presidents do not win games - players do, they are the only people who can make a significant difference once that game starts.

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.

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.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

We've got to play better basketball.

Of course managers win ball games.

I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.

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

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

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

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

All of the usual formations have advantages and disadvantages, but none would work without the magic of the players.