When I signed for Spurs, I was the only black player in the team.
Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.
What I'm trying to say is that within the styles, first, there's something clear: the style is given by the players on the roster.
In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.
The way the Premier League is now we have a lot of foreign players. A lot of very good foreign players.
The campaign can’t be run by 100 outsiders.
Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
As a coach, you look for the elements. Sort of like a chemist, you want to say, 'Okay, here we have all of the parts,' and make what you think will be a successful line.
The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!
I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.
I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.
Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
I'm bad at picking heroes.
When I first came into the England one-day side and joined the selectors, I wanted to move away from picking what some people called the bits-and-pieces to the best batsmen and bowlers.
You know, whenever somebody comes in, in any situation - whether it's a poker game or a bobsled team or a band - it's gonna change things. And sometimes significantly.
It's a different playing style than at Monaco; there were two of us in midfield there, and here at Liverpool, there's three.
When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.
When you're a sub, it's a game of more than 11 players starting the game.
Look, I don't really know where we should take this bus. But I know this much: If we get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus, then we'll figure out how to take it someplace great.
We have got to be more comfortable experimenting with different models. So maybe a client just needs execution people or a lot of young people who are great with social media. We don't always have to give them the pyramidal structure of senior VP and account supervisor.
Being on a team with four All-Stars is unheard of.
If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.
I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.
