Gareth Barry Quotes

The responsibility will always go with the manager - you put out the team.

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.

When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you're dealing with a lot of guys that are prideful, that think they're the best - a lot of alpha males. So, typically, you've got to have a guy that can control those guys, and, when he talks, they know he means business. He's a serious guy.

I can lead my team.

When I'm in the huddle, it is my huddle, and I mean, that's how it needs to operate.

No coach wants to sit back and not have control of the team.

I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.

I am pretty tough as a boss.

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

You run the party or the party runs you.

The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.

Joe Prunty will take over, and he will run the team. But nobody gets out of their lane. Joe will still be offense, and Sweeney will still be defense.

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that's true of any profession and hierarchy with a boss. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job, and then you have the ones that just hover around.

I do not decide who plays.

No two managers are the same and I believe how players are man-managed on a daily basis has a huge influence on their performance on the field.

Usually a captain will allow his bowler to set the field, while exercising overall control and maintaining the authority to step in if he sees fit.

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.

It's up to a manager to understand his players.

A manager can never accept somebody at the top influencing his decisions about the team.

I think coaches sometimes think it's always their way.

The chairman is the man who manages everything and, in the end, takes all the decisions. Always, for the fans, it's important to hear him.