Smart Play Quotes

If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.

For me, good football is not about how many skills you show or how many players you beat. It's about making the right decision every time you have the ball.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

For me, it's just finding ways to create shots. I feel like if I got a shot off, it has a good chance of going in. So it's finding ways of creating different shots. Being smart. I watch film a lot, and different tricks that I can do to get my shot off the ball and creating ways to get shots off of pick-and-rolls or one-on-one situations like that.

Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.

It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.

If you prepare well and you play smart, there's times you'll dirt the ball or throw it away if you feel it's not there, but there's other times when you have to be aggressive and let your guys make plays.

I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

When we're up 1-0 after 88 minutes, I don't sprint to the sidelines to take a throw-in - I expect that I and my team will be smart.

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.

I feel like I've matured in that area too, taking what the defense gives you, not trying to make too much. If it's two, just stick your head in there, and drive to get the two.

We need to play between the whistles. That's what tough competitors do. They don't run their mouth.

I just have to play smart and play the best I can. I think that will be plenty good enough.

It's basketball, man. It's being smart, using your size as an advantage. I can get into people. I can get into your stomach, so you can't back me down. I can stay in front of you, I can move my feet, I can be aggressive. People don't understand that it can be a disadvantage being tall, too.

One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

What I tell a lot of the younger guys is, 'My speed isn't the same, my agility isn't the same, but yet I still can talk.' That's an extra defender out there.

I've got to be smarter with the football.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

I feel Teddy Bridgewater is an accurate passer. He's a leader who wants to make everyone else around him better. Someone who's a hard worker, someone who smart with the football and takes care of the football. Someone who competes at a high level on a consistent basis.