I get enough workouts outside of the games. It's more than the games right here in spring training. You can't take for granted what happens during the day. Hopefully, you get enough games. The last two or three games I've come in just catching. There are other guys that need to get work in. I know what my role is. |
I get the feeling more and more now that he was kind of playing us to get the training and get out of town. That's one reason why I was trying to keep a low profile in calling the FBI. I was afraid if he got one or two (flight simulator) lessons and found out we were looking at him, he'd beat his feet and be gone. |
I had so many doctors look at everything about my heart to make sure it was 100% ready to come out here on the court, ... Had we just blown this off and I played and this happened (Collier's death), it could have been more back and forth about going on. I feel the doctors did a good job of evaluating my situation. |
I have some white customers but not as many as I'd like. I think some people feel intimidated walking into a barbershop like this, but I'm trying to change that. When people come in here and they ask 'do you cut white folks' hair?' I always say I cut hair period. Of all colors, white, green blue, whatever you got. |
I have to get over my own fears of being out there. Do I belong here? Once that happens, I feel like I can be part of this team and rely on these guys to win games. I think a new guy always has an advantage. Once they adjust to me, it will be my adjustment back to this league that will determine my future success. |
Bruce Weber (1946-) |
I hope this has a positive effect (on my teammates). I was talking to the guys, giving them a hard time if they missed a pass. I wanted to wade myself back in but old habits are hard to die. I felt myself revert to old tendencies. Whether it is morale or excitement, if it?s a positive, emotional lift that?s great. |
I just feel awful for this mom. I'm a mother and I know I wouldn't want to be going through this situation. Marvin is in this situation because my daughter did manipulate him. She did lie to him about her age. I feel she is destroying someone else's life. I feel like this young man is faced with serious penalties. |
I just got so slow in Turns 1 and 2 and that's where he beat me. In Turns 3 and 4 we were both getting around the top pretty well. It was sort of my fault. I was running the top of this thing all weekend and sat there and second-guessed myself and knew I should have gone back up but I didn't do it and got out run. |
I just want to thank people from the bottom of my heart for being so human and so caring towards us in our time of need. From the teachers to the principal to human services at Town Hall to parents to strangers, everybody has come together in our time of need, and I just want to thank them for being so supportive. |
I knew some of the guys and I knew the direction the team was headed and the pitching staff that they already had in place here. [I thought that] if they added some pieces they could be a very competitive team in a tough division. [I wanted] to be part of something special. I thought it was a good fit for me here. |
I knew we'd be inconsistent. I didn't know to what level. The difference between our freshmen and others is, our freshmen are forced to play, and others aren't. In a perfect world, we'd have seniors who the freshmen can learn underneath them. We've been a little more inconsistent than probably what I hoped so far. |
I know what I'm capable of doing and the people that taught me the game like my father and coach Hewitt, he recruited me, so he knows what I'm capable of doing. I just have to go out there and prove it on this level. I just want to play. I want to show the nation and the world that I'm capable of doing big things. |
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