Team Improvement Quotes

If we think a playoff spot's not in the cards, there will be no concern for appearances or cosmetics whatsoever. We'll continue to address our future and trade off some pieces that would keep us respectable.

I didn't make the Pro Bowl until my seventh year I think in the NFL. We continually got better.

Whether we win 60 games or not, you build your habits back and get better that way. It may not be 60 wins, but you get better as a team.

I mean, I think we are a better team than last year offensively, but there is always a question with the Minnesota Twins. We'll just have to wait and see.

I'm all in on the Los Angeles Clippers. We're moving forward. We've got to work to be the best we can be to take advantage of all the assets in the community.

It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.

My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.

I think I'm going to improve a team the day I get there, honestly. I think I can be the guy who can play right away, the guy who can sit if I need to and learn.

Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team.

That's part of being a leader, being the guy that people look to and making everybody around you better.

As long as the body feels OK, I'm enjoying playing, helping the team improve and taking wickets, I'll keep going.

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

When you talk about goals, you look at your team last year and you want to move the meter a little bit. You don't want to go back and be the same team that you were last year, so we have tried to get better in some ways.

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.

Typically, you'll see that zones work better in November than in February. As the season goes on, teams get better and better at attacking zones, and it becomes harder to become an effective zone defense as the season progresses. But early on, it can be can good at times.

To take over a bottom club is the best thing that can happen to you as a coach. There's a significantly higher chance that you can turn things around than failing.

I think as a team we do OK with this because we are new and we need the drivers so we appreciate more if they do good for us than an established team, because you know it all and you know this environment here, it's like 'it cannot be me, it must be the driver'.

I've just got to keep working hard, try to get my team better. That's a goal of mine.

One guy can't make a team better.

When I look back at my first few seasons in the NBA, we didn't dominate as a team. There were a lot of nights where we took a beating and got whacked across the head. But we got better along the way, and we started to taste the success. With that came the pressure and expectations to be successful.

From Game A to Game B, your whole focus is on improving your team and what is the next challenge. What does the next team present? What are the solutions to the puzzle?

Teams buy players and change managers if they feel they need change at the club.

If you can make the players better, that's what I'm about.