Chris Mullin Quotes

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

In some ways, I admire the principle of a manager who is determined that his team must play their own game.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

For me, as a coach, it is important to put together a team that not only blends but finds the right balance between defence and offence.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

It's a unique situation to have, but again they say sometimes talent doesn't win. It has to be brought together right. That's the coaching's job. That's what we're doing.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

All of the usual formations have advantages and disadvantages, but none would work without the magic of the players.

I'd like to teach my players how to play and not just run plays.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.