He just makes this place better every year. The golf course keeps improving, the quality of the way they present the golf course gets better all the time, and I think this year is no different. It's just great playing on a golf course like this. He runs a great show. |
He ran super in the Belmont Stakes. It looks like he's coming around really nicely. He could be a tough horse. He could be a surprise horse. He's blossomed since he got to Saratoga. I don't see how he'll be out of the money. I think he'll find a way to hit the board. |
He really ran the ball club [against California]. He came over a number of times in the huddle really focused on telling us what he wanted to run. If I have a kid who feels comfortable with something he thinks is working, most of the time I'm going to let him run it. |
He struggled with the track a bit. It was a pretty game effort. He's still a little green. It was only his second start and that first one was a long time ago. I'm pretty proud of him because he was struggling with the track and he could have given up, but he didn't. |
He takes everything personally. You feel the obligation when you work with him. If your job is to be the best player on special teams, that's what you need to do. Everybody has to accept their roles and responsibilities. He does. That's the biggest thing he stresses. |
He threw some breaking balls today -- we're really concentrating more on building arm strength. We'll spin the ball some, but I don't really worry about the breaking ball as much as some other pitches until the arm strength gets built up. Those things will come back. |
Pete Hamill (1935-) |
He was doing this gonzo journalism, which meant 'it's the way I see it -- and if the facts get in the way, well, we'll get rid of the facts ... ' He had a lot of fun with it and he'd liven up the bus or the airplane and we were always kind of glad to see him I think. |
He was good in the pen. Just one of those things where he didn't execute a couple pitches. You're facing all young kids who are hacking.... They probably don't even know that he has a great split-finger, so they're probably going to the plate oblivious to everything. |
He was one of my favorite teammates. He worked me like crazy in practice. I'm still trying to figure out the other part of him. It's not about the money with him. But it's the only way he thinks he can talk to the organization, by saying things about the quarterback. |
He wasn't like glamorous. Of all the people watching I'm sure there were a lot of people into him, … obsessed with him, some women out there that were in this fan club. People are watching the news every night; there's this intimate relationship with this stranger. |
He's a great shooter and we wanted to make him work for everything. So we always had fresh guys on him - Justin, Sammy Villegas, Ridley Johnson, Jonathan Amos, probably some others, too. They did a good job. I thought we got most of the loose balls and hustle points. |
He's a heck of a defender. He's a guy who takes a lot of pride in that. He's a guy who has a lot of power, he's strong, he's athletic and he's long. It's a team game, and you have to take what they give you. Adam does a pretty good job of taking what others give him. |
He's a player that is a competitive player. He's an outstanding addition to an offense. In general, I am a risk-taker. We've gone down that road. We've had some situations that worked and some that didn't. ... I probably have a propensity to try and make things work. |
He's always been his toughest critic. He'll grade out at 97 percent and he's sitting there worrying about the 3 percent he did wrong. That's what makes great athletes and great people, in general, when you're worried about getting better. You're aiming at perfection. |