I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.
Systems don't win, players do.
I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.
We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.
Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.
I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.
Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.
Ian Callaghan is everything good that a man can be. No praise is too high for him. Words cannot do justice to the amount he has contributed to the game. Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game's truly great players.
And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.
The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.
Coaches build teams, parents build players.
There is a lot of pressure on tennis players like other sports that are singular like you're not on a team. When all the pressure rides on your shoulders, it can be a lot different. Team sports you share those moments with the teammates. You share the pressures. You share the wins. You share the losses. You have a coach that can change the course of matches. But in tennis you're out there by yourself. There are no caddies. There are no coaches. You do it alone in the arena and I think that ups the ante a little bit.
Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.
You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.
For me, as a 14-year-old aspiring to be in the NBA, I wanted to hear from players.
The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.
You always want to be able to convey items of interest, items that make the fan see what's happening, help them in their conversations of comparing teams or players and then be able to back it up to open his eyes to the history of the league.
On paper we might be the best team in the league. We’ve got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn’t put it together.
I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.