Jerry Jones Quotes

In 2004, we had a great year, with Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Tim Bresnan, Luke Wright, Alistair Cook. Some groups are not quite as strong.

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

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

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.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

We have to talk about the players we have.

You go into training camp and you fight for jobs and often times things work themselves out. Like players just take the job, they play so well, they win it, and makes it easier on the coach to decide who is the guy that gets those minutes.

We are not trying to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes you have your off days. We have a way of going about things. Basically we are positive people trying to improve players and teams.

My ambition is to work to improve my players.

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

If you can make the players better, that's what I'm about.

Every time you come out of the team I know you don't just disappear, you don't just become a bad player overnight.

Coaching is always about changing. That's the life of a football player and a coach.

I think you build a team and a roster around the depth. That's what makes a team really good.

We are all really working hard to improve our batting.

The Australian players are getting better.

I think every game in the NBA, I'm a lot better than I was before just by learning a lot.

Success at United doesn't depend on money but about which players we bring in.

Whether it's drafting or player development, the ultimate is putting a team together.

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

When you have your roster set up different ways, you really just have to examine the roster, find out what their strengths and weakness are and hopefully you take your roster and the vision you want to implement of how you want to play and you can tweak your roster to create that.

Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.

My best games for England were under Eddie Jones. Eddie got the best out of me. He understood that I needed an arm around me, needed my tyres pumped up.

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

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.