Players Quotes
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Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.
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One of the things that I’m just joyful about whenever I watch the team is how many players contribute.
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Physically, the top players are on a different level to other players, and that's why they're on the top.
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.
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NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.
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I don't know where it's written that he's going to get big money. Let's wait and see what happens. You're always nervous when you give any athlete big money and a lot of years. There isn't a good track record in sports for players with long-term contracts, so you're always nervous. But sometimes you're forced to do it because of market conditions.
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When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.
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I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.
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We're moving on, ... Things happen, unfortunately. I apologize to coach. I apologize to the fans and the team so there is no need to dwell on it. It's an unfortunate incident. It was a misunderstanding, but he's still the coach and he's still allowed to make the decisions that he wants to make and players got to live with it.
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People are realizing we have some good players here. Anytime you lose, nothing really matters except winning. ... People realize that when you win, you obviously have some good players on your team.
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We are football players and we like to win games.
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Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.
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This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.
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I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.
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At Atletico, I always played with older players, sometimes out of position. I'd keep going back until I beat them.
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I thought our players handled it pretty well. they practiced hard and practiced fast. We got better. We were able to come back last night and get a game preparation practice in for Oregon State and that went really well. You like the preparation time, but you also like getting into a game week rhythm. It is hard to keep practicing against each other all the time.
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We lost a little of that focus in the second half, but we have a lot of young players. We had a 20-point lead go down to 10 a couple of times, but we were OK.
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It's exciting because we're going to be able to go out on the field and do what we like to do. Just as much as the players love to get out there and play, coaches do as well. It's an exciting time and we can't wait to get out there.
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We have not been good. The players haven't been good. You can say whatever you want. I have done a lousy job.
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We'll keep our ears open, but nothing is pending. I really was hoping to get him. I don't have a plan B. That's not totally unusual. We've gotten good players in the past in the summer, but it's not ideal.
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All along I have known they are confident players, but they don't do it in a boastful way. Tommie is not intimidated by anybody. I have this vivid memory of how we were about to tip it off at North Carolina, and he looked like he had been there 25 times before. Kevin is the same way. How many big shots has he made in every setting?
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Part of our offense is that there are no set plays to get any certain person open. It's more about the flow, and the better players are going to end up with the most shots. Cage did a really good job on him and made it difficult to score all night.
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I said this morning that in this business, you have to reward the players that are playing well, and Michael Garnett is definitely giving us a chance to win. It's pretty easy to say his confidence is growing, and our confidence in him is growing also.
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Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
