Barry Trotz Quotes

The goals is to create a really high 'floor' for this organization, where the 'off' years are years where you might win in the high-80s and sneak a division or a wild card or win 90 games and get in and find a way to win in October. And the great years, you win 103 and win the whole thing.

As a coach, we are not magicians; we work with the players and look to improve them and give them every opportunity, but if you are not creating or scoring goals over a consistent period of time, it is difficult for you as a coach.

It is obviously always nice to start in a strong way, but it's also very important to keep that strength during the year - the season is quite long, from March to November.

For a player with his talent, it is about doing it consistently week in, week out and over 90 minutes.

I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.

Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.

I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting.

I just want to win as a team, take road games, play some of the top teams and beat them to make the playoffs.

I think when you're a very good defensive team you give yourself a chance every night, on the road, at home, it's a big factor and something to build on.

There's been so many stories throughout the league where teams have started off poorly and ended up in the Finals. Or teams starting out great and not making the playoffs.

I've been consistent in all the three formats, and that's what I want to do as a cricketer.

As a team, if you don't have the best season, it doesn't help.

I'm just trying to find ways to continue to pass and continuing to be consistent in every aspect of my game.

I feel like any team I'm on, I can help take that team to the playoffs.

Every opportunity to win is sacred. It's sacred to us inside the organization, and it should be sacred to the fans as well. They deserve our best efforts to do what we can to improve the club and put the club in position to succeed in any given season.

Making the playoffs is hard to come by, so if you can help contribute to your team's success it's always a successful time.

Very often, you can go into one game and do really well, and then you have to find that level of performance so quickly again.

There's a lot of guys that are able to perform for a short period of time. It could be a week, it could be a month, it could be two months, it could be one season. It's doing it over and over. And being consistent was something that watching Patrick Roy all these years, that's what he was. He never had down years.

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

If you want to say I was a disaster of a player, then say it. But give me another disaster of a player who played almost 500 games across 14 years.

What Barcelona almost always do is play a good game, but we don't always win.

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

Any team that's consistent over time, you have to respect what they have.

At United, there has been continuity with the manager, with the success they have had. It gives them a different dynamic.

A team like McLaren doesn't want to keep changing drivers at a time when they're developing the car. They want consistency.