Team Rules Quotes

I think my senior year in high school was when I started wearing Jordans. It was our team rule that we had to play in them so that's when I got - not introduced to them, but got into it. Through the minors I started collecting some, just to wear, and that's when I told myself I want to become a Jordan athlete and did all I could to do it.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

I've always been quite strict when it comes to the appearance of my players. I don't want to see earrings in training, things like that.

We changed our rules. If a player does not have some sot of altercation on or off the court once each month, we fine him...The guys that are our top four scorers, each of them will be required once every two months to appear on MTV. The guys who shoot the worst free throws over a one-month period, next time we have a TV game they're required to look into the camera and beat their chests after they make a good play.

Coach Skiles is tough. He's been my only coach in the NBA, so I'm used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can't fault him for that.

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous - it was no one's business what car I drive - so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.

In-N-Out is incredible, but don't tell coach I've been going there. He would flip out and put some curse on me.

In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

There was a rule at Rangers, going back to the 1950s, that players needed to turn up for every training session dressed in a suit and tie. I was a teenager. You'd have been lucky to see me in a jacket even on a Sunday - it just wasn't my style.

If there's a national-team player, he has to do extra work. He has to do extra weeks, and he can't go on vacation even if he says: 'Well, but I'm supposed now to have six weeks off.' If he comes and says that, then I give him a hug and say: 'Have fun the six weeks, but don't come back here.'

When I got to the NFL, they asked me what number I wanted, and I said No. 44, but they told me tight ends are not allowed to have that number. So I said, 'Just double it up for me if you can' and took No. 88. I figured I'd be twice as good as I was.

Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

For the Patriots, you can be a cheerleader for four years. They can be four consecutive years. You can do two years and take a break, and then come back for two more years. I've actually only completed two years, two seasons with the Patriots cheerleading team.

There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

I am not going to tolerate players turning up unfit. They are professional athletes representing a country.

The UCI have to make the decision to put in rules into women's cycling that they have in men's cycling: you know, like a minimum budget to run a women's team and that sort of thing so that it becomes more professional.

I think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what's best for the player. And you say what's best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.

I think players of the national team are not entitled to make an opinion about who is making the team and who is not. At least in my days it was like that.

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.

I have never forced anyone to offer prayers in the team or to keep a beard.

The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.