Bum Phillips Quotes

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

It's a unique situation to have, but again they say sometimes talent doesn't win. It has to be brought together right. That's the coaching's job. That's what we're doing.

We've got to play better basketball.

Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

You look at the quality players and look at the leadership we had, and it's easy to understand why we won.

I've just got to be the best player that I can be and worry about what I've got to do to help out the team, and be the best team out there we can be, and the best player I can be out there on the field to help out the team.

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

The better you can prepare your players and the more you can put their minds to it is really important.

It's hard to do, but you've got to be able to get your team going and prepare each week and go out and play your best and hopefully it shows in the game.

I always try to field the best team.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

At Barcelona, I had the best players ever, and they helped me to be a successful manager.

My job is to improve the performance of the team game by game.

When we lose, watching a game tape is therapeutic for me because it brings clarity to what happened. And when we win it's fun and rewarding to see our guys do what we ask them to do.

When you get into the game, you're trying to win games. So you want your best players out there.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

In order to improve our side, we need players who can make the difference.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

My job is to coach the team and get them to try to play the best they can come April, May, and June.

I know what it takes to win, and I've helped lead teams to winning cultures.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.