Player Treatment Quotes

Some referees have to think about treating every player the same, even if it's Ronaldinho or another player from a Premiership club. It doesn't matter how good you are: you have to be treated the same.

My mother and father didn't treat my brothers and sisters the same, so to treat 12 players exactly the same, that's a great accomplishment.

If we can't find the next technological breakthrough, well, maybe we can be better than anyone else with how we treat our players and how we connect with players and the relationships we develop and how we put them in positions to succeed.

I've come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.

I'm not a mean player. You'll notice I never pick on a player who has a number above 30.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

When Brazil lose, someone has to be guilty, and it's always Rivaldo. It's different with Romario. He plays in Brazil, and they love him more. I'm treated like a foreign player.

I don't feel like it's fair to the other players and I don't think it's the right way to do business to allow influence and position to dictate when you play a young man.

I always loved the Yorkshire members and was passionate about playing for the county, but the people who were running the club made it at times unbearable for me. The rulers had a history of doing what they wanted and sacking players seemingly on a whim.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

I try to treat players as I would like to be treated myself.

Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and they make such a big deal out of it. If they treat us this way, well, we have to treat them the same. We want to be respected, the way we respect Wimbledon, even if it is not the best Grand Slam on earth.

It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player.

I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

The crowd paid little or no respect to every player out there tonight.

True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.

As a child I dreamed of playing for Arsenal, because I loved them. Now I hate them for the way Wenger treated me.

I know the English fans will treat players as they deserve, and I'm not worried about that in the slightest.

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.

I will never do as a coach the things I hated people doing to me when I was a player.

It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.

Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.

In Spain, people do not respect the players, the same in Italy. In England, it looks like a different world - the people admire the player, but also respect the player.