Ben Zobrist Quotes

The NFL does a great job of taking care of the players.

We will always make sure player health and safety is our No. 1 priority in the NFL.

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.

I think fans oftentimes get an inferior product on back-to-back games, and I think that has to be the number one thing that gets addressed for the fans and for the players - the elimination or the drastic reduction of back-to-back games.

Everything was professional at United. They really take care of their players.

When you stand and talk about player safety, and then, at the same time, you want to extend the season two more games, there's a contradiction in there.

Sometimes clubs take their ownership of a young player for granted and do not necessarily do the best thing for their development.

Always protecting the players is not good.

What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game.

It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play.

You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm's way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well.

We have a lot of rule changes. I am part of the competition committee. We spent a lot time evaluating the game, how do we make the game better for our fans.

You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.

We don't want our players getting hurt.

I really do care about the health of the players. That's one of the tough things about the NFL - it's so physically tough on the players.

There is no winter break, and I think that is the most evil thing of this culture. It is not good for English football. It is not good for the clubs or the national team, and I think you should change it.

I admire Indian cricket because of the way the sport is run there and how the money they earn is invested back into the game and players.

Wenger is an immense manager and a great man. He takes care of his players, maybe too much. He's not a man of conflict.

It's great having a good academy, but if you can't pay the players you're producing, what's the point of it?

I'm thankful for the collaboration between the WRU and Ospreys, which will look after my best interests and enables me to play the best rugby possible.

We've had people like Marc Vivien-Foe die while playing. There have been too many others, including Cheick Tiote. The clubs and the federations have to be serious about giving checkups to the players.

Health is probably the No. 1 thing that gets overlooked for a player.

Having fresh players is important.

If we're going to be getting treated like that, why can't we treat the clubs like that? I just want to see the game and the players looked after the way they should be because the crowds don't turn up to watch David Gallop play... they turn up to watch the players play.