Don Kardong Quotes

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.

The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team.

Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

'SI' came to me and said, 'We want you to do a story on Russell as the greatest team player,' which I certainly agreed with.

As long as my players show respect - not for me, but for the locker room, their team-mates and the club - I will tear my heart out of my chest and let them play keepy-uppy with it.

I don't want to be the guy that gets inspired by one player. I like to watch every player.

I just want to be seen as a kid who loves to play football and to do the best for the team.

Some of the best coaches I've been around are those people I worked with in high school.

I play hard and I play to win, and my team play for me because of the backing I show them.

I've grown not just as a player but as a person. But my passion will always remain. It's there because I love football, and I love fighting for my club and my country.

I just go out there every game and try to be the best I can be for our team.

I've always wanted to be on a winning team, be competitive and have something to shoot for in October. It's never been a money situation.

The players think it's all about them! It's not about them - it's about the game of football, man!

I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.

As a player, I just want to be remembered as a good teammate, that's it.