Players Quotes
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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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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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Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your 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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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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I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
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Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.
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We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
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I've got a great repertoire with my players.
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The players have been aware that they were going to be involved with this for a while now. But we're taking three catchers for a reason. You can't expect to catch this much this early without getting sore. Fourteen pitchers is another obvious thing. As for the players, we'll take things on an individual basis. For example, Ken Griffey told me he'd be ready to go.
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The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind.
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I don't like people calling the character of our players into question.
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I had massive admiration for lots of players. Richard Hill would be up there, along with Martin Johnson.
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I would like to use overseas-based players, it’s been arranged already.
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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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Look at the stats. Look at the players.
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Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men.
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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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They're two of the reasons that I came to this team, along with Thornton and Samsonov and center Patrice Bergeron. The young guys on the team are their best players and we need them back.
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A talented footballer comes over, his family depends on him, and if his agent or club don't treat him well, he might not succeed, and then he feels he's let everyone down. For years, African players have been exploited.
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Most players in this league say they want consistency.
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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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Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days 1940s. They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.
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He makes the players feel relaxed and lets them play the game. He doesn't put pressure on the players. Sometimes, if you make a mistake, a manager will push you. He just talks to you about it like nothing happened.
