Ronald Koeman Quotes

It's the same for any team... you have to keep your best players.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

Nobody wants to give up good players.

As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.

The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

I would not put Dak Prescott on the bench. I would leave him as the starter, and I wouldn't have a problem with that at all.

We have always made sure that players who have played for CSK, even those who came from other franchises for whatever reason, have performed well.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

If you excel, there will always be teams interested in signing the biggest players.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

They say that when it comes to the depth chart, it can change any day and that we dictate how the depth chart goes. If one person has a great day, he might be going with the 'ones.' If a person slips up a little bit, he might be going with the 'twos' and 'threes.'

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

I always believe that there are players that are hard to replace.

Every game, I have to make the best decision. I repeat: my players must be happy to stay in Chelsea and to play for Chelsea and to play for our fans. They must be happy if they start the game or if they stay on the bench and come on.

We're trying to win football games, and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center.

If you offer a player a new contract, and a good contract, that means you want to keep the player.

I have a lot of respect for Wenger. But a player needs playing time. And a coach has to put his faith in a player if he feels that he needs it.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

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

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.