Player Replacement Quotes

Injuries happen every season. We can't rely on that being a crutch. It's up to all of us to do our best to fill those voids as coaches and players.

Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.

I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.

If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.

We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

That's a beautiful thing about India, they got such a big pool of players to call upon. If somebody gets injured, the replacements are generally pretty good.

We have three kinds of guys on our team. We have guys that get it; they play good; they understand how to play winning football. We have some guys that are trying to get it, and they are working hard every day? We are supporting them, and we want the guys that have it to support them. Then we have some guys that don't get it and don't know that they don't get it. We are trying to replace them. We only have a couple left.

When you're a sub, it's a game of more than 11 players starting the game.

You can't rest on six months of good performances because as soon as you have a blip, there is always another player to take your place.

I was not happy when we lost Morgan Schneiderlin, Nat Clyne and other players of that quality at Southampton.

If a better player comes along, I will try to persuade the club to get him in. Sometimes, you can do your business and all of a sudden something appears that you never expected to appear.

If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.

I was very young at Manchester United, and I feel that I was just starting to find my feet when I was sold and Rooney was brought in.

It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.

We'll have all the same players... We'll be missing one, actually.

If you're a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.

So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in [Kirk] Cousins, Niles [Paul] and [Bashaud] Breeland who may be better than the players that they’re replacing.

All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.

When you lose a good player, it's like losing a quarterback.

Everybody had heard the rumours that Real wanted to sign James Rodriguez after the World Cup, and I knew that they were going to sell me to make room for him.

I always believe that there are players that are hard to replace.

The team evolves over time, and players need replacing.

Every season, players come in and players go, but I think it is good news if top players come in.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

The players who play have to perform. If they don't, then they will be replaced. That has always been the case.