Player Focus Quotes

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.

Obviously you have LeBron, the best player in the world, all the attention is on him. A lot of the wins and losses are targeted towards him.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

One of the things we joke about in the FPS development is it's so hard to get the player to actually bother to look at all the cool stuff you've been doing. You spend a lot of time making really cool things, and usually the player isn't looking where you want them to.

When the game starts, you don't really look at uniforms.

And when you're a coach your main concern is the players and the coaches. The last concern you have is really about yourself.

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

The only thing I can think of was an incident one day when I did get angry with the substitutes for talking behind the goal while we were practising free-kicks - I told them to pay attention because we might need them during the match. That was something I always insisted on.

As a player, you are more concerned with the moments when you have possession of the ball or are about to receive the ball. You are watching your team-mates and trying to decide what the possibilities are.

One thing I know is if I have my best player, I'm not going to let another team take him out of the game so I can throw to somebody else. I'm going to find a way to get my best player involved so they can't take him away.

A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.

As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.

Sometimes in a game - even with the best will in the world - a striker can drift out for 10 minutes and then come back into it.

You don't let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry. He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.

When it's a clash between two big teams, you know your players will concentrate.

I don't think any player will miss a grand slam if they can play.

Anytime you're a defensive player and your eyes aren't on your key, you're going to have an issue.

Most teams won't really focus on one player because they've got multiple players to defend and that will open up a lot of things for me.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Defensive midfielder is my position and I have to be focused on that role.

Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.

I can't worry about what I'm doing to be the National Player of the Year; it's what am I doing to help my team be successful?