Stephen Rodrick Quotes

For a team of Evergrande's level, fans hope to have the top coaches and the coach will definitely face various pressures.

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.

The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.

You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

We haven't had the success we had hoped to achieve. Josh McDaniels is the head coach of the Broncos and you always strive for stability at that position. However, with five games left in the 2010 season, we will continue to monitor the progress of the team and evaluate what's in the best interest of this franchise.

If we can't have a great team and a winning team, then I will not be an N.B.A. owner very long.

None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

If we'd had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.

The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.

Your dream, when you buy a sports franchise, is to win the championship, the Super Bowl.

When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports.

It's wonderful being out on that pitch, being able to play there, with the fans supporting us. It's hard to describe, to be honest, when the team is playing well, when the supporters are chanting and singing their songs, when they are really behind the team.

When does every fan like the manager?

I'm trying to be a Leafs fan, but... Hopefully, in a couple of years, they might be good.

My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.

The Premier League is more physically demanding than Ligue 1. I love English football; it's the best in the world in my opinion, and I hope to stay here for many years to come.

Look, it's all about wins and losses to the fans. They want to believe in their team.

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.

I want to be a Hall of Famer, have an impact on my franchise, and you can do all of that by winning a championship.