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A trade is better then service.
I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.
I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming.
What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.
It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.
Don't waive your rights with your flags,
After several years in the league, when a player becomes a vested veteran in the NFL, they play under a different set of rules. For instance, if you cut a vested veteran mid-season and they don't get picked up by another team, you owe them the remainder of their salary.
A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.
None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.
We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.
That's the reality, and you can't overlook it. Rod can be a free agent, but we don't want get ahead of ourselves. Rod is the starter now and at some point we'll address that. Rod's got the job and the experience and you hope Gerald learns from him.
Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.
It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000.
Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.
Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.
It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go.
It's difficult in my position because you are just waiting on injuries and that's often when your opportunity comes at this point into the season, ... You never wish anyone ill health, but that's the reality of the business.
If you ever have to ask someone else's opinion on a trade, you shouldn't be in it.
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
When it was time for a player to go, he went.
Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.
Don't stretch a season out to a lifetime. Know when to let go.
What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.
I play because I know I can play the game, so it's their decision whether or not they want to keep me or they wanna trade me. Whatever decision they make, I will understand it.
Some guys milk injuries and miss a couple games at the beginning. Other guys, they tough it out for the betterment of the team.
If you understand our salary cap, you have to be logical. If Barry Sanders , for instance, came out of retirement, if we were interested we probably couldn't get real interested. So you've got to temper your enthusiasm with the reality of our situation.
I tore my ACL playing basketball.
When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.
Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.
I will get an opportunity to play again. Why? Because this is the NFL and there's always second chances.
Players get a window of opportunity. Quarterbacks, specifically, usually get one.
If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out of your position.
I don't want a player that's content with not playing ... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.
When a team tells you we're going to let you get your option regardless if you get it or not, that's a message to you as to what you need to do in order to make this team or to be on this team next year.
Be great or be gone
If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.
I was ranked No in the world and then I was out for months between my shoulder surgery and my parents getting in a motorcycle accident in ,
I wanted to stay in the game. I wanted to learn more about the league, what goes on behind the scenes. As a player, you don't really think about that, nor do you really care: you're worried about your job.
I'll take the contract. He can have the team.
You can't really make the decision for the coaches. I don't know what's going to happen. If I knew, then I would tell you, but I don't.
He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.
I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.
If I need to help my team and play a different position for that game because somebody is hurt or they want to give a day off to somebody, I'll do it.
If you're going to trade me, trade me. Whenever they are going to do, let them do it so I can situated.
I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.
How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It's your choice.
What you do in the off season determines what you do in the regular season.
You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.
The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.
Rose okay with closing tonight?
Most of the players in the league use marijuana, and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason sometimes.
There's never a right way to tell somebody that they've been traded.
Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.
The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very excessive and unrealistic demand.
It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.
In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him
I don't drop players. I make changes.
These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.
When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.
I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.
I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.
A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.
A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.
Pittsburgh have showed me a couple deals, but we all know the money ain't what it's supposed to be. If I quit the game right now, I can take tax-free money, and that's a difficult thing that I'm going through with myself.
Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.
Where my tendons have been torn, my psyche has been mended. This was a worthy trade.
The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.
Stealers, keepers.
Activate your fans, don't just collect them like baseball cards.
I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
Pitching is a priority.
If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.
If you draft me, you'll never regret it.
Me as a backup center? Hell no.
People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.
If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.
I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.
If any one of my players isn't interfering with play, they're not getting paid.
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.
The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.
I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
If I would take a job with a professional league, I need to be ready.
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We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.
Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!
When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season.
I wouldn't have taken him. Not because I don't believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn't want to deal with all of it. [ ... ] It's not going to be totally smooth things will happen.
The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.
Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court - that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
I never drop a player I only make changes.
We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the Cowboys relative to relief as to our cap management and good for him that would maybe be some pluses for him on his contract.