"After
every game, I used to ask Michael (Jordan) one question: Five, six, or seven? As in what
time are we hitting the gym tomorrow morning. And he’d snap back a time and
that was it. Especially after a loss, when there wasn’t a whole lot to say. No
discussion, no debate, no lame attempt to convince me he needed the morning
off. You good? I’m good. See you in the morning. And the next morning at
whatever time he’d decided, he’d awaken to find me standing outside his door.
No matter what happened the night before-good game, bad game, soreness,
fatigue- he was up working out every morning while most of the other guys
slept."
From "Relentless" by Tim Grover
"To be a good player on your team, you have to affect someone
else on the team. You have to cause them to play better by the way you play.
You affect other players with the character and attitude. To be a great player,
you have to affect your entire unit. If you are a great player, every player on
that unit plays better when you are on the field. The number one thing on any
team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.
Having respect leads to trust and from that they begin to believe in each
other. That is the way it works and that is the way it has to be."
-Nick Saban
