Post-Game Analysis Quotes

Even when I played, if they gave me the microphone after a match, whether a doubles final or a singles final, I'd handle the microphone pretty well.

There'd be days I was in the locker room with my dad doing media, and there'd be other days that I'd be with my mom in the press box and just kind of looking at stuff from that point of view. I'd see guys writing stories after the game and stuff like that. So it was cool to me to see both sides.

The thing we found out was, when you get to a Super Bowl, both teams are treated the same, talked about in glowing terms. But when the game is over, only the team that won matters.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

The media do not analyse the game. They analyse the result.

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.

I go home after games to watch the highlights with my friends, and I listen to the commentary and to the experts. I always get home by 10 o'clock at night so I can watch it live.

If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.

When you've done it long enough - I've done something like 21 World Series - just about every fan base has turned off the TV when their team lost and I was screaming and yelling for the other side.

If you lose a game, everyone asks why this player didn't play. If we win, nobody asks.

At the end of the game, coaches always talk about what could have been done differently with the game plan.

Things happen on football pitches. Once the game is finished, you don't need to talk afterwards. That's just how it is.

As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.

Just because a coach does not get out the clubs after a match but instead focuses on what he says, that's not an indicator of cluelessness.

You're so emotionally connected to the game that it's hard to switch off afterwards. It's a good time to have open and honest conversations about your performance and what you can improve on next time.

Lakers are my boys! I'm 100 percent the biggest Kobe fan on the planet. I text him after every game to tell him what's up.

What we do at the end of every season - which is why it's probably not the greatest idea to talk about things in the visitor's locker room after the final game - we sit down and have real serious conversations with all of the senior people.

What I don't like too much really is individual comments about the performances of the players after the game.

In every dressing room in the world, players say things to each other after a defeat, and then it gets forgotten.

I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.

I do not like to discuss a game with the other players right after the final whistle.

I'm a person who looks at myself, and after every game, I like to reflect on my performance, not just the team.