Pat Gillick Quotes

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.

The head coach is the chemist.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

In fact, one of the conversations I had with Jason Garrett, you know, sometimes X's and O's get so complicated, and a coach gets so into that that he forgets the most important thing is players win ballgames. Make sure that the players are properly equipped and motivated to do their jobs.

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

To get the best out of any player you need to play him in his best position, it's as simple as that.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

I am so thrilled about the opportunity to coach the Storm for years to come.

Scouting and player development is the key to year-in and year-out success, not the occasional lucky hit. There are no definitive answers in this game, no shortcuts. When you think you've got it all figured out, you can get humbled very quickly.

When we talk about Arsene Wenger, I like the fact that he focuses 80 percent about the style of play he wants for his team and not taking so much consideration into the other team.

I think what we've tried to preach to our players is we're going to let the best players play.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

If head coaches weren't important to the success of a team, then owners wouldn't fire them all the time.