I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.
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I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
During the game, there has to be a moment where you have to set the tone. You have to let them know that you're a physical player.
You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'
When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.
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