If you want a measure of how private a place the dressing room was when I was growing up at Manchester United, consider this: even Sir Alex Ferguson would knock before coming into the dressing room at the Cliff, the old training ground. The dressing room is for the players - and the players only.
This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them.
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.
Michael Owen was made a captain ahead of me.
We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.
When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars.
I try to not to step on any coach's toes as far as what I'm telling the young guys or what I'm trying to give them.
When I was in the GB Women's football team at the 2012 Olympics, it was obvious who was in the first XI and who was making up the numbers. Kelly Smith was going to be first-choice striker no matter what, and the other forwards in the squad mentally checked out as a result.
I've said all along I don't want to be a number two goalkeeper.
Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as the champagne sprays and the confetti falls, the trophy is passed not to the team captain but most often to the team owner, handed to him by his highest-ranking employee, the league commissioner.
Even over time, with a stable coaching staff and one manager who is fantastic and been in place for a long time, you can't ever defer and stay out of the clubhouse because you don't want to get in the way.
There is no B-Team at Bayern Munich.
I feel like I've always been doubted or slighted. Let's be honest. When you're a walk-on, you don't start for a No. 1 team, a national championship contender. You just don't. A walk-on is a guy who plays scout team, who's just happy to be on the team.
We want to be a works partner. Ferrari and Mercedes have their own works teams so where would you be in the pecking order if you're a customer?
A player can't request on what position he wants to play, and it is the same with the captaincy. One should respect this, there are hierarchies.
I have huge respect for Porto, a great club that's always in the hunt for titles, but they aren't Real Madrid, one of the biggest clubs in the world.
Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.
The switch from ten-cylinder to eight-cylinder engines means that each manufacturer has to redevelop its power train. Not all will manage to successfully combine performance with reliability the first time around. That could shake things up a bit when it comes team hierarchy.
My mum played darts for the county. But only in the B team.
It's not good if owners of sports teams are talking to sports journalists, bypassing the manager. That goes in the wrong direction wherever it happens. Therefore, I'll refrain from doing this at all.
When you get to Spurs you know the difference between the lesser clubs and the big boys. It's a different experience.
In the national team, the armband always goes to the player with the most caps.
I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.
