Players Quotes
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You don't win games with being just good basketball players. You need toughness. You need heart. You need some feel for the game that isn't in the box score.
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NBA players, we're directly involved in the tech world whether we know it or not. Media content and wearables directly influence us every day.
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I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
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So we have to make sure that we always have top-class players. And to always have top-class players, we need top-class expertise all the way from top to bottom. We need to start with the five-year-olds, keep going with the ten-year-olds and invest in quality at an early age.
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I think all the emphasis has made it even more valuable, ... Everybody is looking for those players.
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I told the commissioner that by the end of the year, I'll have pure white hair from coaching these guys. When you have young players like this, they'll drive you absolutely crazy, especially after you get spoiled by the teams I had the last couple of years.
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They've had to battle to win without some of their players. With those players back in the lineup they'll be a lot tougher to beat.
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We have 22 players who were involved in the Rugby World Cup last year and five new guys who will add talent and enthusiasm to the squad.
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He's going to stick his nose in there. And he's probably the heart and soul of their team because he does all the little things on the floor that drives players on other teams crazy.
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In a team situation, I think the players are more inclined to give the answer they believe the psychologist is looking for rather than maybe being totally honest.
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We're genre-sluts, really. We're all good players, and I don't see why we should have to confine ourselves into playing in one particular style. The Beatles never did. It's whatever floats the boat, really.
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I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.
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In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.
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The coach and the players know after the Italy defeat just how important this match is. We anticipate a strong reaction from the team.
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I don't like people calling the character of our players into question.
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It was a little more raw than they had been used to hearing. From our discussion, I gathered there was a feeling the players had become a little complacent. He brought back to them they've got to play hard. He brought a lot of competitiveness.
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The top stars play in other leagues - the best players go where the money is.
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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
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When I was a child, I got an opportunity to see all the big players in a cricket match. I was a ball boy outside the boundary line. I picked the ball and waited a bit for Sachin Tendulkar to come near me to give it to him. The sense of being in the same space was special. While thousands were watching, I was close to Sachin.
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People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.
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Yeah, but our guys are too smart for that. We talk all the time about that and they understand it.
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I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
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He's such a good player, who gets the puck to the net and helps in particular on the power play because he finds the open man. It's hard to find players who see the ice as well as he does and can make that pass.
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I liked playing with David Eckstein (former Angels shortstop). I'm not talking about players with top skills, I'm sure there were players with way more skill than him, but there were very few people in the league that had the heart like him.
