When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.
Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!
Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.
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.
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.
At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.
For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.
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.
There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.
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.
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?
I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing. ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.
When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.
But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.
It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.
It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.
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
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.
At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.
People say you're too good - you're never too good to go down, believe me. I've seen it at Leeds. We had a better team at Leeds than we have now and they went down eventually.
You were only a goalkeeper.
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
When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'
It's not a problem. In four or five days I will be beautiful once again.
I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.
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