Mickey Rivers Quotes

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back.

The reality, ... is that I need to win games of football. That's where the pressure and the sleepless nights come from. There's a fantasy pressure with this job but none of that matters. I need to make this team into a good unit, need to take it forward, give it a change of pace, need to get it younger and to use the experience of the lads we've got here. I need Lennon and Sutton and people like that to go and show how you handle being a Celtic player.

To change a team you must change their comfort zone.

Competition is the best form of motivation.

When the team plays better, individuals play better as well.

The support down here in Rio has been amazing - between my family, Team U.S.A. and Team Kellogg's, I've felt so much love. This whole experience has been a dream come true.

I've played in successful sides, and you smell it. When dinner finishes at 7:45 P.M., and you're playing in an unsuccessful side, everyone goes up to their own room.

You need young, hungry, developing players in your team, but you also need that experience to level things out and get hold of some of the youngsters when they need advice in certain areas of the pitch.

A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don't realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It's important to have guys who have been there before.

It would be worse if I have players who are happy if they sit on the bench, because that doesn't mean that we develop our game.

When the key players in your team perform well, the team does well, too.

You bring in Joao Moutinho and it's not just how he plays it's the experience he brings to the team and to the group.

I was fortunate to be part of great teams that had success, and I was part of great teams that didn't have success.

I am not obsessed, but it is natural that doing well for PSG is the only way I can push back into the squad.

I really try to avoid looking at or thinking about my stats because I'm just trying to do my part in winning games.

When you are playing well, the players play with more confidence, sometimes without changing anything.

To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.

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.

The more better players we have at Barcelona, the better it is for the team and coach.

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

You obviously never know when you have a lot of changes to a team, but the new guys have come in here and they look great. They work hard. But the league is so competitive now so it's hard to predict.