#layers

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#better #greatest #knack #making #manager

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance. ↗

— Ron Jaworski

#baggage #chance #character #coaches #dictated

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL. ↗

— Ron Jaworski

#i #i think #level #look #next

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#found #game #i #played #players

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed. ↗

— Angela Ruggiero

#existed #hockey #i #knew #know

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#feel #quit #run #should #starts

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#clarity #emphasis #layers #orchestras #precision

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off? ↗

— George Saunders

#days #doing #each #evil #find

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#am #ankle #bad #been #career

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#best interests #coaches #heart #interests #players