"I almost look at football season like you're going away on deployment. It's like, 'Man, here I go again.' There's only one way to do it" -- Buccaneers QB Tom Brady, on how the intensity of playing professional football is akin to serving in the military (CBSSPORTS.com, 10/19).
“I told Danny I’d fly to Utah and personally strangle him if he did. You can quote that. You can take one person, an assistant, and make them a head coach, which they did with Will Hardy. Then they also wanted Mazzulla, and I was like, ‘That’s it, you’re crossing the line and we’re not having it.’ That was just when Joe was senior assistant with us and now, all of a sudden, he’s interim head coach” -- Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck, on how he prevented Jazz CEO Danny Ainge from hiring away Celtics interim head coach Joe Mazzulla this offseason (MASSLIVE.com, 10/19).
