He has a lot more to struggle with than we do, but he still always has a smile on his face and he's able to go through all of that. It's fun to have him on the bench. He means a lot to the team. He's always smiling, always fun to joke around with. You'll never find Michael in a bad mood. |
He has been pretty active with these emergency boards, ... If there is a strike, I think it's highly probable it will be short. If there is no intervention, I think it could drag out for the weekend. At this point I'm assuming logic would prevail, it wouldn't go on much longer than that. |
He has such speed that if we can get balls behind the defense, he's just not going to get caught. He came on at the right time. The good thing about Matt is he scored a lot of important goals in key games. You want your key players to step up in the big games and he's answered that call. |
He is really trying to change the rules of the game. Right now, those rules keep various parts of the world population from communicating with each other. He is trying to change those rules, and he is doing it in a very dramatic fashion by accepting the invitation to the September event. |
He just assumed that the time was so short, he hadn't served. He was born before the Great War, he was a child in the Roaring '20s, he graduated about the Depression and he married about World War II. These are very unassuming guys. It was a national responsibility, and you did your job. |
He just wasn't responding. He couldn't move out on the floor. He was hurting the team and he was hurting himself. I was worried about the confidence. At the end of the year the one thing I try to protect, especially with our young guys, is going into the (summer) with a positive feeling. |
He may be that special type of player. I don't want to put him in the Charles Barkley class. But with Barkley, length wasn't a factor. Heart and desire and long arms and good hands can overcome that. Put that together with an ability to make an outside shot, and you've got a nice player. |
He plays the game the way it should be played and he respects the game. He's tough and he's dependable. You can count on Travis Holmes every game. Whether it be defense or effort or whatever, those kind of kids are hard to come by. When you get a few of them, you are really appreciative. |
He saw in the paper where I said some of our kids with better records were the top threats to win titles for us and he was upset I didn't mention his name. He said, 'You don't think I can win this tournament? I'm gonna prove you wrong.' I said, 'I hope you do prove me wrong.' And he did. |
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He was good at focusing on your weaknesses. As pros, we all practice our strengths because it's fun and makes us feel good about ourselves. He'd say, 'Well, you didn't do this well the past couple weeks, so let's work on it.' It seemed like I was a little more consistent with everything. |
He was really the one that got me into racing. When I first started racing, he said, 'Boy, if you're going to drive these cars, you're going to learn to work on them. You have to build the trailer, build the cars and the motors and do it all.' For me it makes me appreciate it a lot more. |
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He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. I'll never forget looking out into the audience and watching my brother, who was 40 years younger than my grandfather, sleeping in his chair during some of my early plays. My grandfather Alex never fell asleep. |
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