The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.
It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.
The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.
I never went to the Sonics and asked for more money. I didn't ask for another dollar.
As far as I know, Mr. Watzke has not said he would sell me if somebody offered 100m. He has emphasised that the club would like to continue working with me. The club is just greedy for success - and so am I.
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
To have an 18-year-old coming to you demanding money before he's even played - that has got to be frustrating for a manager to deal with.
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
I know the game, it's old and lame: You're holdin' a flame for my name and my fame. Livin' like Givens schemin' on Tyson, But she got lucky 'cause he was a nice one. But I ain't nice and I don't play that, If it ain't tax, I don't pay that.
Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.
There are many, many ways that we can obtain payment for the wall from our friends to the south.
