Joe DiMaggio Quotes

It's my responsibility to put a team on the floor that will win, and that attracts players.

The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.

You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

My main focus is, 'What can I do today to help the team win the ballgame?' You have those blinders on. It helps you focus.

It's all about the qualities of the players. The better the players, the easier it is for the manager.

Arsenal is a team that needs good footballers and leaders on the field.

It used to be you a needed a true center to win championships, but now the point guard position holds just as much weight.

It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.

Honestly, I think winning changes all of that. It doesn't matter where you are - it could be Timbuktu - if you win, people will watch, they'll follow and they'll support. It's my responsibility to put a team on the floor that will win, and that attracts players. Look at the teams that have been successful in the NBA. Yes, you have big, glamorous cities like L.A. But Miami has won, and so has San Antonio. Oklahoma City is a very successful team. They're not the biggest markets.

That's what I hope to put out onto the pitch - a team that knows how to win matches.

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

Only Bayern Munich really have some sort of a guarantee to win if they only catch a good day. All the others need really good days to win. I like that.

In my heart of hearts, I thought, if we get a 1-0 win and the team doesn't perform well, that would feel good.

What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.

It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world.

I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

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.

Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.

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 know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.