Frank Vogel Quotes

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

My life's pretty simple. Look at hours and hours of film to try to find some things that will work on Saturday. Try to have a good practice every day. Use the offseason to recruit and build the culture of the locker room. That's my deal.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

Most coaches' attention to detail is very good; it's their job. They have to analyse teams, and they have to analyse their own team.

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

It is nice to pick a squad or train players for 30 minutes, but I do not like the life of a coach.

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

When you're paying millions of dollars for somebody to coach your team, you can find somebody good.

As a manager, you look at who is going to get the fans on the edge of the seats.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.