Quotes About Player

If you offer a player a new contract, and a good contract, that means you want to keep the player.

I experienced the G League in two forms: one as an assignment player, and then one of actually being in the G League after I got cut by the Bulls. Obviously, both situations are different. You actually sort of still get treated like an NBA player when you're on assignment. When you're in G League on contract, you're down there for real.

The grade contracts of a Test player should be the highest.

I don't necessarily view myself as a big - I view myself just as a player, someone who can go out there and contribute to the team from any position.

Neymar is a player who controls his emotions and the pressure well, and demonstrates it on the pitch. He's a player with personality. He does his talking on the pitch. He's doing great stuff in Paris.

Sometimes as a player you do not want to get into a controversy.

People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that.

It's tough being a small player. You don't want to be known as a guy who goes into the corner and loses 50 percent of the battles.

My dream when I was younger was always to be a Benfica player. So when I arrived on the first team to work with a coach that didn't count on me, who put me as a left back, of course I was a bit sad.

No one wants to see a player lose his credibility in college, lose his chance to play and obviously maybe not have the right guy to prepare for his future.

I don't think longevity gets enough credit when you're talking about a player.

For me, having played the game of football, I look at it through a much different lens. I don't look at it from a fan's perspective. I'm always trying to analyze and critique things when I'm watching sporting events. That's why I never have the sound on.

The crowd at City are amazing, and that's what you want as a player - a good atmosphere.

Bolatelli is an exciting player, but his stupid attitude sometimes attracts attention from the crowd - nothing more, nothing less.

I will always remain a fan of Pescara. My time there was crucial to grow and improve as a player. It was my launchpad to top football.

I think I was the most natural, charismatic player who ever lifted a cue.

To me, I have always been a Rick Adelman fan. I felt like if I had been in his systems, I probably would have been a better player than I was because if you look at his system, it was ideal for me.

If a player digests his own statistical information in his own time, on his own laptop, tablet or whatever, without a coach standing over him, it makes it easier for him. It helps with the pressure. There's a fear factor but spending time at home analysing things can help control it.

People that know me realise what kind of player I am. I'm a front-foot defender; I like a tackle, but I'm not malicious, and I don't go in to hurt.

I'm a left tackle. I like playing left tackle. That's my position. I think I can do it better than anybody.

When you let those defensive backs know that you're a physical player, they don't really want to tackle. That's it. That's why you see me get a hurdle every game. Those guys don't want to tackle me when I get to the second level.

Sometimes that kind of last-ditch tackle can get the crowd excited, and you get a push from that. It's important to play with that psychological side of the game, but it depends on the quality of the player.

Marshawn, he's hard to tackle. I only played against him a couple of times. We did OK against him in Chicago when I was there.

The biggest thing in training camp is you don't always get to see the hitting aspect. Whether a guy is easy to tackle or whether he's brought down easy.