Player Profiles Quotes

I think, generally speaking as a player, when I hear the word 'scout,' it's usually, 'The Seattle Storm are playing the L.A. Sparks tomorrow; the assistant coaches are scouting the L.A. Sparks.' And then they come to us and give a scouting report on the players and the team.

In a World Cup, the girls at Lyon are probably the ones that are going to change the games, and I know them inside out.

There are so many really good players in the men's game that no one person can dominate year after year.

At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths.

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.

The number of French players Arsenal have brought through is very impressive, and many of the players who arrived, especially the young ones, were unknown when they arrived to the general public.

Every footballer has their own identity. A Uruguayan player is different to a Spanish player. A Portuguese player may be similar to a Spanish one, but not the same - and so on.

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

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

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.

It's important to know as much as I can about the players.

I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to.

I have to know the characteristics of the players. I have to adapt myself to the characteristics of the championship and the players. Now I study my players.

I only ever call up the best players, or at least the players who are the most suited to the way I wish to play.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

If I have an idea of football, and I am the manager, it doesn't make sense for the club to find players with a different profile.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

There's so much information out there. There are written biographies of Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, there are interviews, and we have had the benefit of meeting these players. There's a physical and psychological aspect, and combining these two is what will help '83' connect with the millenials and cricket lovers.

I like watching Spanish and Italian games and looking at how they play compared to us.

We're always able to look at a position and have our view in terms of the list of targets that would suit Manchester United and augment our team.

I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.