Jeffrey Lurie Quotes

You make smart, educated decisions that are best for your football team.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

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

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

I thought that the Bulls were an undermanaged, under-operated team and that it could be a very successful franchise if run properly.

In the NBA, you have a better diet and strength coaches to make you better physically. And the number of coaches, it makes me feel like there's more of them than us players.

I watched Hiddink and Ferguson at close quarters, and I realized that I am not a coach.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.

My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

I understand very well that if you are a national coach, you want to use all the opportunities that you have to meet up with your team.

I'm really excited by this opportunity to continue helping develop and work with some of the great young players we have coming through in the first-team environment and to work alongside Unai and his coaching team to help Arsenal win trophies.