Joe Root Quotes

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

I think the most important thing is to play to help the team, winning the games - that is the main thing for me.

I just take it a season at a time because I know in football, things can change so quickly.

I have said many times I play for the team to help the team win the games. That is the most important thing for me.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

We cannot change every week our idea and philosophy as a club if you win two games or you don't win two games.

My approach is going to be all about winning games. All the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

Just got to win games. You've just got to find ways to win games.

I knew Portuguese football and I knew that Rio Ave was a medium-sized club but I also knew they are organised off the pitch. We felt that we could achieve something special playing in a different way.

You've got to try to close every inning out, take it one inning at a time, one batter at a time.

It's about winning games and scoring as many goals as possible.

We're constantly working to try to improve our team, but we're not going to do any deals just to do deals. We're going to do things that are better for us.

For me, I just try to figure out ways I can affect winning.

When there's a rule that you can use only three engines for the whole season, and you are a team that is not worried about 2018, you are worried about being world champions in 2020, you need to make progress.

The leagues in the countries around us are probably more interesting and played at a higher level, but in general, we are happy with the way we have moved things forward with Ajax, together with Marc Overmars as technical director, to establish a squad that can compete at the highest level.

Records are always something that will be achieved, but they're not our aim. Our aim is to win games and nothing more.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

If you defend, rebound and limit turnovers, you're going to put yourself in a position where you can win games

We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

Guys don't want to get to two strikes, so you have to make quality pitches early in the count, try to get them to put the ball in play.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.