Player Quotes - Page 24

• Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Winning, Coaching

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• The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Wise, Winning

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• I believe that box lacrosse gives young people many more opportunities to excel in our game. If I had my choice, I would have every player under the age of twelve play box lacrosse exclusively or at least a majority of the time. The number of touches of the ball and the ability to develop better stick skills in a game of box lacrosse, far surpasses what happens to young people on a 110 x 60 yard field. Learning how to pass and catch in traffic, understanding how to shoot, and developing a sense of physicality are all positive traits developed by the box game.

  Bill Tierney

  Believe, Opportunity, Games

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• Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular. You make them because they are right.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Sports, Volleyball

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• If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.

  Bjorn Borg

  Leadership, Sports, Thinking

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• Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

  Earl Weaver

  Leadership, Sports, Honesty

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• When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

  Elvin Hayes

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

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• Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Needs

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• If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Team

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• I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.

  Phil Simms

  Mad, Guy, Tape

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• Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.

  Jerry Rice

  Guy, Technique, Green

  "The Shutdown Corner Interview: Jerry Rice". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. August 4, 2010.

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• If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. I ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?

  Allen Iverson

  Silly, Mean, Simple

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• But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

  Krist Novoselic

  Guitar, Dimes, Dozen

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  It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

  John Aldridge

  Soccer, Football, Sun

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• I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Football, Slap

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• I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.

  Patrice Evra

  Soccer, Football, Rip

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• They have weaknesses, the same ones which every attack-minded team has. I'm sure that they will concede more than one at El Madrigal

  Juan Roman Riquelme

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'

  Paul Merson

  Soccer, Football, Hello

  "Merson cashes in on McGhee's peace offering" by Mark Tallentire, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2003.

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• I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.

  Thierry Henry

  Soccer, Football, Waiting

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• Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

  Samuel Eto'o

  Soccer, Football, Forgive Me

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• Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Football, Realising

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• Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Ifs

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• Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

  Shania Twain

  Soccer, Football, People

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• The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and a foul so telegraphed that even the lenient referee seemed to have his card out a couple of seconds before contact was made, to show the first yellow of the game.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Couple

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