You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.
There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.
I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.
You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.
Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
I'm made in the Dominican. I'm from baseball country.
Baseball is not a grind for me.
I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.
I've always been a great lover of baseball.
Baseball is a game of inches.
Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
I always liked the defensive part of baseball.
Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
Baseball wasn't easy for me.
I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.
