J. B. Bickerstaff Quotes

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

When you come off a losing season - one of the worst seasons in all of basketball - and get guys like Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, two perennial All-Stars, we felt like we had a championship team.

As long as I'm at Kentucky, you've got to be able to take the shots, or don't stay at Kentucky. To be the coach at Kentucky and get what I get, you can't be a 35-year-old coach whose never been fired. I've been fired.

Too many times I have had to sacrifice a trophy or the chance of winning one because the owners have said you have to stay in the Premier League at all costs.

When a coach arrives at Juve, he has to win every Sunday, no draw matters, all that matters are the three points.

Even teams that win 110 games have stretches when they don't play well.

The World Cup, as an event, carries a lot of pressure, irrespective of the number of caps you have earned, and the pressure doubles when you play at home.

We have the talent in place, and I think if you are a Jaguars fan, you should be excited, and you should have some expectations that we're going to be a sustainable, winning organization now.

In college, when you lose one game as a top team, it's like the end of the world.

I don't want to go to a team that's only won a few amount of games, but it doesn't have to be a contender.

When you manage a big team like River Plate or Madrid, they are used to winning titles. The people are happy, but they are used to it. When you have an achievement like I had in Villarreal, reaching the semi-final of the Champions League, finishing second in the league, it's more than winning a title. It's more.

I think there's always pressure at Arsenal to win trophies - it's nothing new - and to us, as players, we know what we are capable of doing.

Every team that goes into training camp thinks they're a Super Bowl contender.

If you're joining the Knicks, there's expectations that follow that; there's a lot that comes with it.

At Bayern, if you don't win the Champions League, it's always a criticism because we have a great team, but most of the people forget that there are other great teams, and it's not that we aren't special.

I want to put expectations on our team that are high. That's kind of the way I've always been, and I want to put those expectations on our team as well.

In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.

The goals is to create a really high 'floor' for this organization, where the 'off' years are years where you might win in the high-80s and sneak a division or a wild card or win 90 games and get in and find a way to win in October. And the great years, you win 103 and win the whole thing.

The Yankees can buy all the stars they want, but that doesn't guarantee they are going to win.

When I was in Denver, guys came into the team, and we started at a pretty high level.

It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.

It takes time; you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. It took them a year or two to get their legs underneath them and figure things out, and even then, that run was relatively short.

When I played for Arsenal, like once per month, you always had this feeling you had to perform.

It's always pressure in sport. It was a lot of pressure since Day 1 in Orlando, and it's going to be always pressure, but I think those pressures make us better.

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