Mike Leach Quotes

I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

I'd prefer to have 10 players scoring 10-15 goals than one scoring 25.

Both sides of the game, defensively and offensively, are important.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.

No matter how much striking power you have got, you need to have a sense of defensive compactness from everyone.

It's good to be able to run and have a balanced offense. They've got to be worried about both things. They can't just focus on the run game or the passing game and have us locked down that way. So when you have balance, good things are going to happen on offense.

Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.

It's about winning games and scoring as many goals as possible.

Football is teamwork, unity, defence, assists, sacrifice.

I like to dribble and give the decisive pass to my teammates.

The midfield is the heartbeat of a football team, it's the centre of the action, so you can't just do one thing.

People watch the points, they watch the highlights. But the defense I think helps the offense.

I don't like isolation play, unless you're in the low post.

I do a lot of things to help my team winning - set screens, roll into the rim, finishing. I think I can be even more than that.

The triangle itself is just an offense based on freedom of the ball to go to different places, everybody feeling involved. It's a good thing.

The strikers need the midfielders, defenders, and goalkeepers. My objective is to have everything work in all the aspects.

I love the triangle. It's a great offense if you execute it well.

I've played with a couple good shooters, but I've never been on a team where there's been three, four, five, six good shooters. And I've always thought that nothing gets you open more than being surrounded by good shooters.

If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.

It is my job to score goals but that is only one part of the team.

I'm just going out there to do my role, the same role - defense first - and then see how the ball turns out on the offensive end.

It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'

When I get the ball, the players need to start running, and then I just feed them with the ball.