Coach's Corner
Inspiration and Quotations:
"I love playing football but I am just like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning."
"If trees had horses would be single."
- J. Ponchak
"Average players can make great plays sometimes, but great players make the routine plays all of the time."
- J. Ponchak, R. Cantisano
"Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple." - Johan Cruyff
"If you score one more goal than the other team, you win."
- Johan Cruyff
"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
- John Wooden
"It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit."
- John Wooden
"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."
- Mia Hamm
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
- Henry Ford
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
- Babe Ruth
"Football is much harder if you don't have the ball."
- Sven-Goran Eriksson
"We need goals when the scoreline is 0-0."
- Sven-Goran Eriksson
"You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field."
- Brian Mcbride
- Wayne Rooney
"Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character."
- John Wooden
"This is the real thing, this is no pony show."
- Gary Neville
"The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work."
- George Graham
"Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better.You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life."
- Eric Cantona
"There's a history made up by each of us, that leads us to that final victory. It's that history, in it's entirety, that turns us into champions."
- Jose Mourinho
"If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won."
- Mia Hamm
"Intensity is a product of execution. You can scream all you want to, but if you're not getting it done on the field..."
- John Smoltz
"Coaches coach execution; they should never have to coach effort."
- Larry Brown
"No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part."
- Tiger Woods
"I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end."
- Larry Bird
"The difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is a little umph."
- Anonymous
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."
- John Wooden
"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."
- John Wooden
"No humanoid can live without passion. Passion is what drives us to be the best; to give the best we can - win or lose."
- Michael Spinella
"You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself besabotaged by adrenaline."
- Mac O'Grady
"Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing."
- Eric Cantona
Players who question their playing time should first question their practice time.
- Kevin Eastman