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Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.
I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.
Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.
China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.
Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?
I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.
A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.
Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.
Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.
In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We can't tell where the ball is coming from.'
Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.
But I will never say anything about who they are, what teams they are on. I'm just saying there's some famous people, and I'm not the only one.
I definitely think with a lot of hard work, I can be a better player than I was last year, and hopefully, continue to raise the bar every year.
Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a single pass.
Jeter is a six-tool player...I've never eaten with him so I can't tell you if he has good table mannners, but I would imagine he has those too.
Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.
Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really the important thing.
When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
That's something that I just can't underestimate the importance of, the staff continuity. I really think that the players feed off the coaches.
One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.
King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players.
I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
As a coach, I want players to challenge me, to question me and ask why we're doing a certain thing, so they feel that they're taking ownership.
I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.
I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.
The more you're at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.
The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.
My thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That's who I am, and that's what I'm here for.
I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.
I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.
I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.
A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group - that's teamwork.
I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.
The College World Series, that's the end-all deal as a college player. To get a chance to play in the World Series and win it, that was surreal.
Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.
I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.