Tiffeny Milbrett Quotes

In every team I have played with, and of all of the attackers I have played with, each one was different.

Every team needs goalscorers, attacking players, players who can sweep up the ball, but every team needs that someone who can be the link between defence and attack. The greatest teams always have that sort of player.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position.

My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.

When you're a sub, it's a game of more than 11 players starting the game.

It's always good to have more than one player who can take free-kicks or penalties.

As a player you get asked to do different roles within the side.

Some coaches don't want their players to be the stars. They want their systems to be the stars.

Teams do not make their debut in the first XI - individuals do - but it is the team that enables the individual to get the best out of himself. Football IQ, I call it, understanding roles and the team structure.

Most teams won't really focus on one player because they've got multiple players to defend and that will open up a lot of things for me.

This should be a written rule: Guards should always defer to centers. I don't care how good you are, those big guys make the game so much easier for every other person on that team, and without them, everyone else needs to work twice as hard.

Why shouldn't Harry Kane take corners? If he happens to be the best striker of a ball in the team and gives you the best delivery, why shouldn't he do it?

Obviously every team is different, and you don't want to try and be them.

You go into training camp and you fight for jobs and often times things work themselves out. Like players just take the job, they play so well, they win it, and makes it easier on the coach to decide who is the guy that gets those minutes.

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

I really think your roster and your personnel dictates your style of play. When you have David West and Roy Hibbert does it make sense to play spread pick-and-roll game when you have those abilities inside?

I don't need players who won't track back, and I'm certainly not keen on specialists.

In the U.S. system, too often the best player on an under-17 team will be treated like a 'star' - not having to work for the ball, being the focus of the offense at all times, etc. - at a time when they should be having to fight tooth and nail for their spot.

Andre Villas-Boas wasn't the ideal coach for me. He bought Gylfi Sigurdsson and then told me he would be his new No.10.

I don't worry about individual matchups.

You can put the players on the pitch but they always move and systems change. I think, though, that Messi has to be a special case and that the other nine outfield players should support him. But one player on his own is not going to win you the World Cup.

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them