John Dorsey Quotes

I think you build a team and a roster around the depth. That's what makes a team really good.

It's the same for any team... you have to keep your best players.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

If you can have a really good coaching staff, and you can have a really good young quarterback and do a really good job in player personnel and string together multiple successful drafts, your window is not small in the NFL because of the quarterback.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

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.

When you don't have the deepest pockets, you better have the best scouting and development.

Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.

My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

You got to worry about getting good damn coaches.

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

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

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.

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

It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.

Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

Success at United doesn't depend on money but about which players we bring in.

You want to win in the NBA you want to build a culture and teams will always do that and try to win. It's cutthroat. All 30 teams want to be that way whether they are rebuilding, have young players, have a style of play. It doesn't matter, everybody wants to win.

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.'

You always attempt to better yourself by getting good football players.