Ken Gargett Posted April 25, 2018 Posted April 25, 2018 we have a gruff old coach at the brizzy broncos (rugby league) called wayne bennett. not tolerant of the press. or anyone. but has coached about 700 games and is the most successful coach of all time. but it is all getting a bit arsene wenger at the moment. we have lost our hooker for a couple of months with a bad elbow injury. he is a key player and makes a heap of tackles every week. usually around 50 per game. he is being replaced by another forward, josh maguire, not a hooker but a good player in his own way (has played both origin and international rugby league). when asked by the press what maguire would bring to the position, this was bennett's response - "it won't be footwork and won't be a lot of brain either". anyone have any other coach quotes?
ayepatz Posted April 25, 2018 Posted April 25, 2018 Bill Shankly, the legendary Liverpool manager, was always good with words. Here are a few gems:- 'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.' ***** 'If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.' ***** 'Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.' ***** 'The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they don't know the game.' ***** 'Son, you'll do well here as long as you remember two things. Don't over-eat and don't lose your accent.' - to Ian St John when he signed for Liverpool. ***** To a journalist who suggested Liverpool were struggling - 'Ay, here we are with problems at the top of the league.' ***** Talking to a reporter about Roger Hunt - 'Yes Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.' ***** Explaining to Kevin Keegan what's expected of him at Anfield - 'Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place son!' ***** 'I know this is a sad occasion, but I think that Dixie would be amazed to know that even in death he could draw a bigger crowd to Goodison than Everton on a Saturday afternoon.' - speaking at the funeral of Everton legend Dixie Dean. ***** 'If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I'd pull the curtains.' ***** 'Sickness would not have kept me away from this one. If I'd been dead, I would have had them bring the casket to the ground, prop it up in the stands, and cut a hole in the lid.' - after beating Everton in the 1971 FA Cup semi-final. ***** Addressing the Liverpool fans who turned up in their thousands to welcome the team home despite losing to Arsenal in the 1971 FA Cup final - 'Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.' ***** After signing Ron Yeats - 'With him in defence, we could play Arthur Askey in goal.' ***** To Alan Ball after he'd signed for Everton - 'Never mind Alan, at least you'll be able to play next to a great team.' ***** To Tommy Smith after he'd turned up for training with a bandaged knee - 'Take that poof bandage off, and what do you mean YOUR knee, it's LIVERPOOL'S knee!' ***** To the players after failing to sign Lou Macari - 'I only wanted him for the reserves anyway.' ***** To Ian St John - 'If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.' ***** 'In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool Reserves.' ***** About the 'This is Anfield' plaque - 'This is to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against.' ***** 'Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale Reserves.' ***** Shankly to the Brussels hotel clerk who queried his signing 'Anfield' as his address on the hotel register - 'But that's where I live.' ***** Shankly explaining rotation to a reporter - 'Laddie, I never drop players, I only make changes.' ***** Comparing the Anfield pitch to other grounds - 'It's great grass at Anfield, professional grass!' ***** 'The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!' ***** To a local barber, who in 1968 had asked 'Anything off the top? Shanks retorted - 'Aye, Everton!' ***** On awaiting Everton's arrival for a derby game at Anfield, Shankly gave a box of toilet rolls to the doorman and said - 'Give them these when they arrive - they'll need them!' ***** 'I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.' ***** To Chris Lawler during a training session at Melwood - 'Was it a goal? Was I offside?' Lawler replied - 'You were boss.' Shanks then quipped - 'Christ, son, you've been here four years, hardly said a word and, when you do, it's a bloody lie!' ***** To Tommy Smith during training - 'You son, could start a riot in a graveyard.' ***** 'There's Man Utd and Man City at the bottom of Division One, and by God they'll take some shifting.' ***** 'It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.' ***** On a wartime Scotland v England match - 'We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.' ***** After losing to Ajax in the 1967 European Cup - 'We cannae play these defensive continental sides!' ***** Shanks and Tommy Docherty were at a game. There was a player every other club coveted on view. Docherty said to Shanks - '100,000 wouldn't buy him.' Shanks retorted - 'Yeah, and I'm one of the 100,000!' ***** What Shanks disliked about football - 'The end of the season.' ***** Radio Merseyside reporter to Shankly - 'Mr Shankly, why is it that your team's unbeaten run has suddenly ended?' Shanks replied: 'Why don't you go and jump in the lake?' ***** On hearing a rival manager was unwell - 'I know what's wrong - he's got a bad side!' ***** To reporters after a 3-0 defeat - 'They're nothing but rubbish. Three breakaways, that's all they got.' ***** Talking about Tommy Smith - 'If he isn't named Footballer of the Year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to the Kremlin.' ***** To a translator, when being surrounded by gesticulating Italian journalists - 'Just tell them I completely disagree with everything they say!' ***** After winning the FA Cup in 1974 Shankly goes into a fish and chip shop and orders a fish supper. The woman at the counter asks - 'Mr Shankly, shouldn't they be having steak suppers?' Shanks replied - 'No lass, they'll get steak suppers when they win the double!' ***** To the Anfield PA during a match - 'Jesus Christ, son, can ye no' talk into that microphone when the players are in the penalty box. You're putting them off, you're doing more damage than the opposition.' ***** Shankly on boardroom meetings - 'At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques.' ***** Talking about the Liverpool fans - 'I'm just one of the people who stands on the kop. They think the same as I do, and I think the same as they do. It's a kind of marriage of people who like each other.' ***** Explaining on what the off-side rule should be - 'If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.' ***** 'I was only in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.' ***** '"If you can't make decisions in life, you're a bloody menace. You'd be better becoming an MP!' ***** When told he had never experienced playing in a derby - 'Nonsense! I've kicked every ball, headed out every cross. I once scored a hat-trick; one was lucky, but the others were great goals.' ***** After a 0-0 draw at Anfield - 'What can you do playing against 11 goalposts!' ***** Waxing lyrical about Ian Callaghan - 'He typifies everything that is good in football, and he has never changed. You could stake your life on Ian.' ***** 'Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated.' ***** 'Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.' ***** On the leaving of Liverpool - 'It was the most difficult thing in the world, when I went to tell the chairman. It was like walking to the electric chair. That's the way it felt.' 1
Ken Gargett Posted April 25, 2018 Author Posted April 25, 2018 some crackers. love the knee one and the queen mary.
ayepatz Posted April 25, 2018 Posted April 25, 2018 Then there’s, Old Big ‘Ead, Brian Clough:- "If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there." On the importance of passing to feet. "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one." Looking back at his success. "Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhea." On Man Utd opting-out of the FA Cup to play in the World Club Championship. "I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine." On the influx of foreign players. "I bet their dressing room will smell of garlic rather than liniment over the next few months." On the number of French players at Arsenal. "Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when you go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life." On the contents of Posh Spice's missing luggage. "Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job." On getting things done. "On occasions I have been big headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be." Old Big 'Ead explains his nickname. "At last England have appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players." On the appointment of Sven Goran Eriksson as England manager. "If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job." On Martin O'Neill. "Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius." A tribute to Martin O'Neill. "The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns." A Clough complement for a talented player. "Stand up straight, get your shoulders back and get your hair cut." Advice for John McGovern at Hartlepool. "Take your hands out of your pockets." More advice, this time for a young Trevor Francis as he receives an award from the Master Manager. "The Derby players have seen more of his balls than the one they're meant to be playing with." On the streaker who appeared during Derby's game against Manchester United. "I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard." On dealing with Roy Keane. "Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right." Reflecting on his drink problem. "I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done." A comment which speaks for itself. "Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive." After the operation which saved his life. "Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes." Reflecting on England's exit from Euro 2000. "We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right." On dealing with a player who disagrees. "I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed - I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me," On how he would like to be remembered. "It was a crooked match and he was a crooked referee. That was a tournament we could and should have won." On the 1984 UEFA Cup semi-final Forest lost to Anderlecht. "I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done." On not getting the England manager's job. "You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday." On too much football on television. "I'm not saying he's pale and thin, but the maid in our hotel room pulled back the sheets and remade the bed without realising he was still in it." Referring to former Forest player Brian Rice. "If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well." On too many managers getting the boot. "I thought it was my next door neighbour, because I think she felt that if I got something like that, I'd have to move." Guessing who nominated him for a knighthood. "For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!" Referring to Sir Alex Ferguson's failure to win two successive European Cups. "I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud." On women's football. ''That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror, rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that." On England goalkeeper David Seaman. "I've missed him. He used to make me laugh. He was the best diffuser of a situation I have ever known. I hope he's alright." On the late Peter Taylor. "He's learned more about football management than he ever imagined. Some people think you can take football boots off and put a suit on. You can't do that." On David Platt's first season as Forest manager. "He should guide Posh in the direction of a singing coach because she's nowhere near as good at her job as her husband." Advice for David Beckham "He's had more holidays than Judith Chalmers." Referring to Roy Keane following time off due to red-card suspensions & injury at Manchester United (2001). "I have always rated Roy as arguably the best midfielder in the Premiership, if not the world. The lad is that good." Praise for Roy Keane (2002). "I drool when I watch Arsenal and it has nowt to do with my age. It's because I recognise a team and a manager who, a bit like me all those years ago, have turned simplicity into an art form." Praise for Arsene Wenger's Gunners. "Don't argue with idiots. They'll bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience." Advice for former England cricket selector Geoff Miller. "Barbara's supervising the move. She's having more extensions built than Heathrow Airport." On moving house in Derbyshire.
Ken Gargett Posted April 25, 2018 Author Posted April 25, 2018 some of the best have come from john mackay, tampa bay buc's first coach. Kickers are like horse manure. They’re all over the place. When asked about his team’s execution: “I’m in favor of it.” We didn’t tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking. Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast. We’ve broken down the expansion teams and they’ve averaged winning 2.7 games their first year, which to me is rather difficult. I figured out the 2, but the .7 has got me wondering what the hell is going on. Emotion is highly overrated in football. My wife Corky is emotional as hell but can’t play football worth a damn. On his team’s blocking strategy: “Hold when you’re at home and don’t hold when you’re on the road.” If you have everyone back from a team that lost ten games, experience isn’t too important. On how coaching an expansion team is like a religious experience: “You do a lot of praying, but most of the time the answer is ‘no.’ I’ll probably take a little time off and go hide somewhere. We will be back. Maybe not this century, but we will be back and we will be a better football team. On the Buccaneers ineffective special-teams play, “They were absolutely horrible and that’s the best thing I can say. Besides that they were bad. These people are not poorly paid you know. "Every time I look up, it seems we're punting." -- on the early years of Tampa Bay "Everyone is unhappy at times, even my wife. Only she doesn't get interviewed about it." --on Buccaneers players who were complaining to the press "Injuries kill you. I remember in Pittsburgh, we had no players and the ones we did have wanted to stay at the hotel by the fire. I was ticked because that's where I wanted to stand." -- on the Buccaneers losing 42-0 to the Steelers "We didn't have a lot of talkers. We had two or three guys who could say a long prayer. In fact, one guy went so long one time he got an standing ovation. He was blessing everybody, the motor, the tire, the wheels, the fans. I kind of went to sleep." -- on his early Bucs teams "The (orange) uniforms were already picked out by the time I got here. I didn't give it too much thought until I saw our buses and I said, `My God, we're dressed just like that bus.' " -- on the Bucs uniforms "They fired two guys in the front office before I even got here. We didn't have a place to practice. There just hadn't been a lot done. Except they had picked out the uniform, of course." -- on the Bucs organization "It was about three-to-one that I was not an SOB. But there were a lot of ones." --on fan mail he received as Tampa Bay coach and when coaching at college... "He is not in a union. He can carry the ball as many times as we want him to." -- after O.J. Simpson carried the ball 38 times in a game "I don't go for character building. This is done at home, not in college." "There are still over 600 million Chinese who don't care if we win or lose." "To pick a national champion, you should always select the team without a tremendously difficult schedule. There's a difference between fighting 10 Joe Louises and fighting one Joe Louis and nine stiffs." "When I was duck hunting with Bear Bryant, he shot at one but it kept flying. 'John,' he said, 'there flies a dead duck.' That's confidence." McKay on players (especially kickers) "He may be the only kicker to kick and collect social security at the same time." --on 41-year-old kicker Jan Stenerud. "Let me know if Cain is able." -- when asked if Lynn Cain of the Falcons was ready to play against the Bucs "Capece is Kaput." -- on releasing kicker Bill Capece "He's not twins." -- on the weaknesses of linebacker Hugh Green "I don't think he's got much of a future here, because I plan on going to all the games." -- on placekicker Pete Rajecki having a bad camp with the Buccaneers because McKay made him nervous "Jerry's a nice kid, but so's my wife. And she's no quarterback." -- on backup QB Jerry Golsteyn in 1983 "We were in four playoff games. Even though most of the people here in their 20s probably wouldn't believe it or know anything about it, the Bucs were on top of the world once. I'm glad I could hang around long enough to see it happen again." "There aren't many secrets in coaching. Well, there's one secret: Get a guy like Warrick Dunn, throw him a screen pass and watch him run 52 yards with it. That will make a genius out of you every time." "If the new uniforms are helping the Bucs win, I hope next year they change again. Really, I think you can play in overalls if you win." "A genius in the NFL is a guy who won last week." "You usually wind up staying up all night, or until your best player comes in." -- on why he never had bed checks "If you have everyone back from a team that lost 10 games, experience isn't too important." -- on the significance of experience "We'll have an offensive team and a defensive team. And the other team will be in charge of carrying me off the field." -- on playing a game with only a small number of players "I keep a picture of O. J. Simpson at my side at all times to remind me of the days when I knew how to coach." -- reminiscing about his days at USC prior to the awful early years as the Bucs' coach "Opening games make me nervous. To tell you the truth, I'd rather open with our second game." -- on opening games "If a contest had 97 prizes, the 98th would be a trip to Green Bay." "It's shattering when a player loses interest in camp. When you lose your desire to stand around and eat steaks, you lose everything." "God's busy. They'll have to make do with me." -- when asked if his team prayed for victory "Statistics and records are baseball talk. They keep records like most times sliding into second base on a Tuesday." "With so many Super Bowl rings, maybe they'll all retire and go into the jewelry business." -- on the '70s Steelers "You draw Xs and Os on a blackboard and that's not so difficult. I can even do it with my left hand." -- on the difficulty of football "Underdog, overdog, hotdog. I guess you want to be an underdog -- but an underdog with the best team." -- on being an underdog in a playoff game "The only problem with doing the impossible is that everybody expects you to duplicate the impossible." "It does not take a rocket scientist to coach a professional football team, but, of course, I was one of the few who happened to be a rocket scientist." in 1991 while watching a Bucs practice "Maybe that will distract the Falcon quarterback." -- McKay once threatened to show up naked for a game against the Atlanta Falcons.
ayepatz Posted April 25, 2018 Posted April 25, 2018 Some great ones there. Love the “He’s not twins” and the “.7”. Brilliant.
Ken Gargett Posted April 25, 2018 Author Posted April 25, 2018 i loved the execution one. i reckon there are a lot of coaches who have wanted to say something like that.
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