“I got my caveman club,”
Kobe Bryant
“He'd grown a beard since I last saw him. I asked, 'what's with that?' He said it was the caveman look.”
Jane Marshall
“Each club knows what the hot buttons are in their market, ... aren't realistic when some clubs have suffered more than others under the past CBA.”
Bernadette Mansur
“You've seen the way the club played at the end of the year. A lot of other clubs with similar problems that we had and that sort of thing, the individuals he has to deal with here, a lot of other teams would have collapsed. A lot of people think we collapsed; we just got beat by a better team.”
Mel Stottlemyre
“The Tel Aviv and Jerusalem clubs are big even by global standards. I heard New Zealand has about 200 club players. We have just as many - and we're not an English speaking country.”
Evan Cohen
“We understand the speculation. It is natural that of 50 clubs, 49 would want him. But the only club who do not need to want him is us.”
Carlos Queiroz
“We didn't encourage clubs to get overly aggressive, because we knew what he meant to our club in the midst of a pennant race. Ryan's an extremely talented player and is going to be an outstanding every day player in the big leagues. Despite the fact that a lot of people thought we should have been more aggressive in sending him away, we're happy we didn't.”
Ed Wade