Emre Can Quotes

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

Coming in, you're so concerned about learning your job and the things you need to do to be successful individually. Once that's good, you can start to focus on learning guys around you and learning defenses and what they're trying to do to you.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

All of the usual formations have advantages and disadvantages, but none would work without the magic of the players.

In reality, rugby is finite and unpredictable, so players need to have skills off the pitch too.

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

I've learned so much whether it was, I played a lot of team sports, so being part of a team, learning how to be a leader on different teams, and how to deal with the ebb and flow of different games.

I learnt about being physically fit, captaincy, and the things that really matter when it comes to being a leader and a batsman.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

Every team has to have a quarterback. You can't have two quarterbacks.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

I wasn't a guy who looked to score first. It was to get your teammates involved, to understand time and clock management and having fun with your teammates.

What captains want is players who move well in the field.

It's like everything in football - and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It's very simple in the end.