The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be better than 31 other teams, you better be a really good team. It's just not about one person.
To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.
I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I make the most money. I've got to be a leader.' That doesn't make you a leader. Treating people the right way is more important.
In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.
The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Everybody on my team - I couldn't do their jobs. I could not. I really mean that. So I figured out early on that the way you're successful is you hire really successful people.
You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.