If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor..
Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better.
Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning.
I am always giving advice to young players about how things are, how important it is to work hard every day to reach the glory days..
My daughter MacKenzie is so important to me. I have a tattoo on my arm for her. My roommate gave me the name for her..
Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group.
They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying..
I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but….
One night I was in the players' parking lot at the Fleet Center in my Celtics warm-ups about a half hour before a game, waiting for one of my dealers….
Troy Polamalu was a fascinating player, and that made him..
He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him..
When we have the football, everybody’s a player..
It’s not difficult to coach to just get 10 players right on your 18-yard box..
I'm not nearly as much of a fan of the NBA as I was maybe 10 or 15 years ago, or certainly as I was when I was a player. It's become more entertainme….
The thing about guitar players is we're all like a brotherhood or sisterhood. We don't care if you're great, good, bad, in between or whatever. As lo….
But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the Unive….
One curve I'll always remember was when I was pitching for Pittsburgh. Terry Kennedy was a young player with St. Louis. I threw him an 0-2 curve and ….
Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing..
I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea..
It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material..
From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone ou….