Hank Stram Quotes

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.

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.

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.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

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.

Of course managers win ball games.

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

I always try to field the best team.

Phil Jackson is a mastermind, and he knows how to keep his team from being complacent.

As a manager you're going to put out the player you think is going to best help you win the game.

In order to improve our side, we need players who can make the difference.

It's all about the qualities of the players. The better the players, the easier it is for the manager.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

The players on the team are the reason why we win. You don't have to treat them all identically; they're not going to be all the same. Your ability to lead and motivate those guys differently is important.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

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

The better you can prepare your players and the more you can put their minds to it is really important.

I don't think I'm any different than most coaches, honestly. Maybe Steve Kerr. The guy never loses.