Players Quotes
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NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.
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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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I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.
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Either love your players or get out of coaching.
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While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to their present game-day effort. I stressed the fact that today's performance could be the most important of their life. Yesterday's performance was already history. Tomorrow really never comes, so today's performance is what really counts.
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I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.
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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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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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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'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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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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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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We are football players and we like to win games.
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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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Some players are identified by certain things. I'd rather be identified by "Can't wait!" than what I was identified by before, which was throwing a referee's flag in the stands. I'll trade that off any day of the week.
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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 went against a lot of big-name schools. Our coaches were not shy about it. They went after the best players in their areas. We took some hits, but we won some.
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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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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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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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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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We are all concerned at the amount of stress we are putting on our players. It is a bigger issue and I am not competent to know what the solution is.
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Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.
