Team Depth Quotes

It's part of the beauty of the job in dealing with this is you have to have a plan, and that's why you can't only train 11 players; you train your whole team.

If you want to continue to be good and perform at a high level and be deep in all areas, you still have to hit on some undervalued players, too. You can't just go out and sign marquee free agents or trade for players when they're at the peak of their value. That's not a formula for long-term success.

I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience.

There is not really any point in having a big squad if you don't use it.

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.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

If you want to win in this league, you need quality depth management, in the age of the salary cap.

You always have competition and great players who can play. The winner in that case is Paris Saint-Germain. With great players, even if a player is unavailable, another can come in and make the difference.

Something you look at when you go into a World Cup is your depth and your players that change the game.

Our team, because of our depth and our talent, we were able to do that, and it turned into a special season as a result.

You need more individuals who can do more than one job in the field. Especially if all of them are good fielders and if they can contribute with bat and ball if needed. Just adds to the strength of the side.

As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.

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.

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.

Football never stops, and that's why you need a big squad.

We played 63 games in the treble-winning season of 1999, and I cannot remember feeling tired once. We won the league title with the last game of the season, and along the way, we knew that in any game we could miss out on this chance of a lifetime to win all three. We had 22 players who were ready to be called on at any moment.

The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.

It is never a problem to have good players on the bench.

I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

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

It's very difficult to say that a player is irreplaceable because the nature of football means that someone always steps in to take the shirt and provides different elements to your team.

Every great team has multiple backs. Very few times do you have just one back.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.