Quotes About Players

The NBA is sometimes a crazy business, and we've seen crazy trades and crazy stuff happening the same night of the draft.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

My eyes were on the game as the Winter Hawks moved the puck into our zone. I wanted to learn as much as I could about their offense. I wanted to know how they moved the puck around. Playing or not playing, I always look for things that give away shooters' secrets.

I was looking hardest for their big players. These were the guys I wanted to force into the boards first. Clean, legal body checks, of course. I didn't want a reputation as a goon. Besides, I didn't need to play dirty. I could do enough damage without getting penalties.

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

The NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL.

and a bunch of the other guys on the football team would be teaching kids how to bench-press or tackle or rape or whatever it was that football players knew how to do well.

I always think the same: English players don't generally leave England, which is strange. But of course, the Premier League's got the reputation as one of best leagues going, and one of the most competitive leagues.

Players should be picked on form, not reputation.

Without doubt the striker who resembles me the most is Alberto Gilardino, but also Paloschi.

Now I want to play with the Ivory Coast. It has been rewarding, firstly because I am proud to play for my country, then because the Ivorian selection has quality players and has always been a reservoir of talent.

The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

If the coach on the sidelines is not that strong, transmitting the kind of spirit he has, players won't always handle it well. Life becomes difficult. But, with Mourinho, everything is good. He knows when to be among his players, as 'one of us' making jokes as a friend, and when to be strong and distant, even severe.

I have always said that playing against Allegri's sides was difficult because he is a very organised tactician. His players always know what their role is on the field.

Italian sides will find it hard to attract the world's top players while there is a salary cap.

I think there comes a time with a quarterback, especially when things go a little sideways, that players begin to try to do things a little uncharacteristic of what they've done in the past.

The players can associate playing for England with enjoyment, fun, and not being under siege and feeling everything is against them. There's an energy and a connection back. That's important in the short, mid, and long term as well.

The buying power of clubs is very different. You can't sign players if you don't have money, and if there is no money, that's it. As a player, there's nothing you can do.

Having Neymar at Real Madrid would be a huge pleasure. Madrid have to do everything to sign the best players in the world and his past at Barcelona would not be a problem.

If you only sign the players of one FIFA agent, sometimes you can make the deal, sometimes you can't.

I always say that Madrid must have the best players, as this is the best club in the world. But it is not for me to say which players should be signed.