Jerry Jones Quotes

You don't know a player until you coach him.

What we need to do is strike the right balance in our teams for all three formats of the sport.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.

As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

I always like to have the best players in my team.

When you're a general manager, you don't get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.

They say that when it comes to the depth chart, it can change any day and that we dictate how the depth chart goes. If one person has a great day, he might be going with the 'ones.' If a person slips up a little bit, he might be going with the 'twos' and 'threes.'

We have to talk about the players we have.

You make mental notes. You're a coach, so you make mental notes from matchups, to who steps up in the playoffs to who doesn't, different types of players.

You're always loath to take a player off of his ability.

Every time you come out of the team I know you don't just disappear, you don't just become a bad player overnight.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.

Whether it's drafting or player development, the ultimate is putting a team together.

I used to have a log on every corner in the league, what their strengths and weaknesses are.

When I was made captain, one of my things was that whatever happens in those four years, you don't want to make major changes just before a World Cup. We'd done it before, and it never worked.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

If you are the coach of a national team, you have to evaluate players based on what they do on the pitch.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

I don't like to talk about players who haven't played; I prefer to talk about the ones who have.