Reggie Jackson Quotes

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

I never had an understanding of Billy Martin. I did not accept the way he managed me. I did not accept the way he managed Ken Holtzman. I thought there was anti-Semitism there.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

The decisions you make are based on what you think is better for the team and the player.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

It's the same for any team... you have to keep your best players.

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

Sometimes you just have things within your team that you have to address, and I think you have to protect your culture a little bit. And sometimes it's sitting a guy down and that's just the way it will always be.

The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

In great groups, the right people always have the right job.

All I do is write their names on the lineup card and let them play. It’s not a tough job. I haven’t misspelled one name yet.

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.