League Hierarchy Quotes

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

There's no disrespect in playing in the G League.

Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.

The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.

It's the price on the ticket and emphasizes the pressure every manager is under weather you are at the top or bottom of the league.

My mentality's always the same, whether it's summer league, D-League, NBA, wherever it is.

I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

The England team shouldn't be picked on whichever players are in the Premier League when you've got a Premier League player playing in the Championship.

Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as the champagne sprays and the confetti falls, the trophy is passed not to the team captain but most often to the team owner, handed to him by his highest-ranking employee, the league commissioner.

I wouldn't call going into the Premier League an ordeal. I would say the Championship is more of an ordeal than the Premier League.

Your first responsibility is to the organization, to teach and prepare players to get to the big leagues and have them ready when they get there, but everyone in the minors wants to be in the majors.

The one thing I didn't understand was the Minor Leagues, how that part of the business works. I'd see Todd Hollandsworth out there one game, and the next game he wouldn't be there, and I didn't understand.

I've had the privilege of playing in our top seven leagues and the main differences when stepping up are organisation, athleticism and decisiveness. Believe me, the gap is even more evident when you achieve the holy grail of the Premier League.

I don't think the bottom beats the top very often in the Premier League, if ever.

The Premier League is at the top, and everyone wants to be in the top leagues.

My playing career that was a bit up but mostly down. I played in the Premier League at Southampton but most of my career was in the lower divisions.

I was only picking up short-term contracts in the lower leagues. I thought that rather than the game kick me out, I'd be proactive about it.

People may think that I just want to manage in the Premier League but I'm prepared to go to a non-league club, and if they can't pay me a salary just pay me a win bonus. I'm up for that.

In the Premier League, there is a team above the others. This team is Manchester City. Then there is a very good team, Liverpool.

I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.

I would never go to another club in the Bundesliga. After Bayern Munich, it would only be a step down.

I don't think people realise the quality of player in the lower leagues.