Jill Ellis Quotes:
A rule is a rule.
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Any player playing at a high level is available for consideration to the women’s national team.
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Every game you play, you gain. There’s always valuable lessons.
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From my perception, listen: the game is different on turf, but it’s the same for everybody.
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I am a sensitive person.
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I can truly say this: I don’t care, and I’ve never really read what people thought.
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I don’t have to talk about critics – I don’t care.
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I grew up playing with boys in the yard and my brother in the backyard and boys in the schoolyard.
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I had zero opportunity to play football over the years.
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I have a lot of fond memories of my life in England.
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I have a tremendous staff around me. It’s a really good family vibe in terms of our environment.
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I think every time I’m with the team, even in a World Cup, as a coach, you’re constantly evaluating.
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I think I’m just a naturally curious person.
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I think people get hung up on starters and 11s, and that number kind of rings through a lot of media’s heads.
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I was just fortunate to move to the States and have an opportunity to play organized football.
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If I walk into a room, I’m quite content to sit in the corner and chat with people who walk by. But coaching forced me to come out of my shell.
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If someone’s off their line, they’re off their line.
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If we’re about winning world championships, we can’t just have all of our focus be on the Olympics.
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If we’re looking at the pure development of our game, the challenge is not to have a 200-cap player because that means there is something better that is coming along.
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It’s easy for a player to stand out in two or three days. But the grind of a camp, and just the level of consistency in performance that requires, that needs to happen.
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It’s fascinating to me how they build bridges or tunnels.
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It’s part of the beauty of the job in dealing with this is you have to have a plan, and that’s why you can’t only train 11 players; you train your whole team.
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Many people say, ‘Your dad was so ahead of his time,’ and he was a feminist in the truest sense, but he’s very much for opportunities for all people… To him, a soccer player is a soccer player.
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Many, many years ago, when you named alternates, and they wouldn’t travel with you – I think you’re dealing with a small roster. Now you travel with these alternates, which you can replace at any time, obviously, if it’s a medical situation, so you have it in your back pocket.
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My dad has a certain spirit, a twinkle in his eye, someone who can set a certain standard for players but also convey it with humor. What I learned from him is that coaching is, more than anything, about connecting with people.
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My own personal opinion is putting three finals in one day isn’t supporting the women’s game.
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Our intent is to attack for 90 minutes.
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Part of what’s important for me is for our players to play on the road.
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Player X might be the best outside back, but does that player help the best wide player be as good?
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Players don’t change drastically. Maybe they get more in form if they’re a goal scorer, or they get healthier if they’ve been injured.
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Something you look at when you go into a World Cup is your depth and your players that change the game.
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The challenge for young players is always stepping into the next level in terms of how much faster the game is.
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The players come out and want to be as fresh as they can, press, keep a team in their end, create chances, create set pieces, and really try and get the upper hand early.
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The players do their thing on the pitch, and there’s a lot of young women or former players that want to coach.
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There’s always things you can refine and polish.
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These countries – Spain, France, Germany – have environments that are really geared toward the professional player.
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Ultimately, if you can have a very cohesive and tight unit, it obviously will pay dividends down the line.
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Ultimately, we’ve got to make sure our players understand that the margin for error is very small against these top teams in the world, and we’ve been punished several times for that.
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We have to get to a point in this country where our top players are seeking out the most challenging environments.
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We need people in the game to be honest, to call things as they are.
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We’ve got to make sure we have players that can break teams down because there’s no space in behind; we need to problem-solve in a different way.
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What I’ve always valued is people.
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What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.
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When all is said and done, I always used to say this to recruits: ‘I don’t remember one goal I scored. I don’t remember one result. I just remember the people that touched my life and that connected with me.’
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When I first took over the team in 2014, the message was, even if you’re on the right track, if you sit there, you’ll get run over.
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When I used to recruit in college, my sole job was to out-recruit what I had. And if I did that, I knew we would grow and be successful.
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When you go to a World Cup, in midfield you need to have players who can score from distance, who can get in the box and obviously play-make.
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Why have a rule if you’re not going to enforce it?
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You can do a lot of breakdown on games you played, but the takeaways from games you’ve played has to be on what’s in front of you.
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You don’t go into coaching if you’re not willing to step into that moment and go, ‘OK, this is what it’s going to take, and this is why you do it.’ Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?
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You have to pay the same amount of detail regardless of opponent when so much is on the line.
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You’ve got to make sure you’re listening to the people that are important to listen to. And then everything else, you kind of have to tune out and do your thing.
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Who is Jill Ellis?
Jillian Anne Ellis is the president of the San Diego NWSL squad and is an English-American soccer coach and executive.