Coach Quotes

I do believe in fate.

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

As long as there are games to play it is not over.

You can't applaud a referee.

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

No one comes into our house and pushes us around.

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

I could have coached better.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

To some degree. I know I couldn't do it anymore.

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

The two championship years were that significant for me.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.