Player Mistakes Quotes

The first time I played against Seattle was the only time I felt destroyed. Vin Baker just manhandled me. The whole thing, their double teams, their movement, everything. I must've had eight turnovers. Which isn't a big deal for me because I turn the ball over a lot.

Nobody has the right to negatively judge a player like Balotelli, as people can make mistakes.

Can't blame the coaching staff for everything. It's mutual, of course. Players mess up, coaches mess up.

It took him 75 steps to get from third to home. I thought we were going to have to go out there and help him. A lot of players start thinking double then maybe wind up with a triple because the outfielder slips.

Don't get me wrong; it's not like I didn't go out and have fun. But there's been a lot of players that come to New York and get caught up in the lifestyle, and before you know it, they're sent away to another team because it affected their performance.

I don't think my players are robots. They are humans and make errors.

Own goals happen to the best of players.

More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board.