Oliver Burke Quotes

As players, you've got to keep improving, keep learning, keep playing well to get your place in the team.

I've always believed that training with great players makes you a better player.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

When you have a year of experience and also the experience of playing in the playoffs, it just makes a world of difference.

Club or national training is the same. We play as we train.

Obviously, I don't want to be a sub, so I will just keep working hard in training. It's not that easy for me as a sub to come on with tempo.

Opportunity 7-on-7 is a great chance for me to maximize my reps.

Training has always been top level. No matter if it's at a World Cup or not, training's been really good and at a high level.

My job is to coach the team and get them to try to play the best they can come April, May, and June.

My goal is to play a lot, more often, and to be a leader.

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I think there's a lot to be learned from your teammates and older guys around you. And there are many ways to lead. You don't have to change your personality to be a leader.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

You can practice against each other, but there's something about a game situation.