“When we get back, it’s going to be fun to watch them fight like dogs to get on that field.  If I was a player, I wouldn’t be at the beach. I wouldn’t be wherever perhaps some of them are goingto go. I would be in the gym.I would be on the soccer field. I would be going to see a sports psychiatrist. That’s exactly what I would do. I would come back raring to go because I’m appalled atcertain things.”

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