Isaiah Thomas Quotes

When you're younger, you have three or four bad results and you worry about everything. You worry about injuries, because they always seem to be your best players.

From my youth team all the way through, I was encouraged to play that way by Keith Hill when I was at Barnsley, and then Roberto Martinez at Everton, through to Gareth Southgate when he was in charge of the England Under-21s.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

As a manager, you always want as many players available as possible, but injuries are a part of football, as it is a contact sport.

Injuries happen every season. We can't rely on that being a crutch. It's up to all of us to do our best to fill those voids as coaches and players.

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

A massive thank you also goes to everyone at the SFA for looking after me since I was a young boy, including Frank Reilly, Doc McLean, Jonesy, managers, coaches, staff, the physios, massage therapists, kit men and the media staff I've worked with over the years.

If you have a lot of injuries for a long period, that makes it more normal to bring in new players.

In my first season after Mancini signed me, I was injured a lot, but when I was fit, he did play me.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.

It's not good to have so many key players injured, but there is no point complaining about it.

Yeah, I've always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you're at.

Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.

The virtue of small-to-midsize companies is that they tend to be more flexible and it is easier to experiment with new ways of working. So just try to tackle one problem you're really struggling with, together with your team. Get started and see what happens. Chances are you will be happy with the outcome.

The one thing that teams can't endure in the NFC any more is injuries. Good teams become bad teams just because they get spread thin with injuries.

You just make the right baseball decision. You don't necessarily worry about somebody's feelings or anything like that. You make the right baseball decision for the team first and then for the player's development as importantly.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

When you come off of injuries, you don't want to rush things.

Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.

If you don't concentrate during a national team match you can just as easily get injured, so I want to make sure I can focus.

I enjoy watching Gregg Popovich-coached teams.

With people, if you see something you want to change, you can make the change immediately. And if that doesn't work, you can change it again half an hour later. You can't do that with a robot. They're terrible at experimenting.

A good coach is good in the management of his men; he gives all of his players the desire to fight until the last.

When you change 10 out of 22 outfield players, you need time and hard work.

You don't know a player until you coach him.