Christian Laettner Quotes

For every striker, it's important to have the confidence of the coach.

As coaches, you want to be able to put your players in a system that's conducive to their success.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

When I first came to England to play I saw coaches having a go at players when they made mistakes and they would literally be talking them through the game.

I think coaches who don't coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.

The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

Any team can have a bad century.

Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

Irrespective of whether Anil Kumble is the coach or Ravi Shastri, what's more important is that India wins.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.

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

When Coach Belichick comes up to you during a game and says something to you, that's great.

There are some great video clips of me swearing, screaming at players, but I was also the biggest cheerleader in the league.

Especially young guys, it's always fun to see young guys come in and have that same enthusiasm about playing a certain way and fitting into a certain role and going after guys, trying to get them off their game.

If you're not on a team that's winning, it takes a lot out of you as a player.

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He's someone I really tried to model some of my coaching philosophies after.

You've got to play to your players' talents.

You see the excitement on the players. I don't know... if they think, 'This coach is crazy,' or if they think that, 'No, this is pretty good.'

For me, happy footballers play the best football.

When you score a goal, it boosts yourself and the team as well.

I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting.