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"It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing."
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"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear."
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"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."
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"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
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"My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues."
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"I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching."
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"You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player."
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"It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high."
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"If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed."
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"I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best."
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"Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars."
People
"They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time."
Time
"When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things."
Pretty
"You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today."
College
"It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!"
Want
"Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game."
Change
"But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them."
People
"But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation."
Stars
"This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money."
Money
"The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that."
Sports
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