Position Quotes

You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him. - Oscar Robertson

You've got to have a minimum of two options every time with the puck. If those options are gone by poor positioning by your teammates, you're in a pickle so you try to do things that just don't exist. We made some bad choices, not just him. - Tom Renney

You've got to give the man credit. (He stepped) into a position he hasn't been used to, he wasn't in for quite a while, obviously not at this level, at the NHL level. - Patrik Elias

You've got to give the guys who played a lot of credit. We ended up having to scramble and play some of those other guys at strange positions. - Dennis Wolff

You've got to give Atlanta credit. They sat in his lap. They wouldn't let him catch the ball in a good position. - Sam Mitchell

You've got to get this issue down to what's reasonable and sensible. That's an extreme, fundamentalist position. And I don't think we're that kind of country, are we? - Deborah Arnott

You've got to earn everything. Any time you put yourself in a winning position, you didn't get there by being lazy. - Bob Freund

You've got to be tough to play center because every play you have to come up and be able to identify the defense and get your other linemen set up and make sure they know who they have to block. At the same time it's the hardest position to block because for the first second or so you only get to use one hand because you're snapping the ball. It's both mentally and physically demanding. - Pete Traynor

You've got to apply pressure. When you do that, up and down the lineup, which we're capable of doing, it puts enormous pressure on the opposition. - Joe Torre

You've got three guys on the perimeter who change positions. You don't know who's going to have the ball at what time. Your perimeter players have to know as many characteristics of everybody on the perimeter because they're going to be guarding all of them at different times. - Roy Williams