Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.

The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.

If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.

For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.