Pressures within the business, such as playing popular but ineffective players to please general managers, scouts, the administration and media of the rival team, as well as the accounting department, add to the stress.
There are 10 new designated players this season (including Landon Donovan, whose previous contract had been grandfathered in, and Blaise Nkufo, who signed just before the rule change), and they are helping to galvanize the league as it fine-tunes its player strategy to please an increasingly demanding domestic fan base.
Cox remembered Smith as a no-nonsense disciplinarian, but one whom his players wanted to please.
"I think the players - and when I say the players, the whole squad of players - attempt to please you in everything that we impart on them.
The National Football League rejected an ad for its Super Bowl program by American Veterans that asked players and spectators to "Please Stand" during the national anthem, a decision that is reigniting the debate over freedom of speech — in this case, the rights of kneeling athletes versus veterans of the U.S. military.
Players end up playing to please themselves; it's a privilege, or a lark, to be on tour if you're not highly ranked, but rarely a gold mine.
You see immediately how the 29-year-old Lithuanian music director-elect of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra might command some 80 orchestral players – not all easy to please, some even recalcitrant – to do her bidding.
"And that is not just to please one player".
"We are going to put all the money into the company we need to to please the players," Mr. Tapie said.
Before Lord's, Lara is promising a hard look at the batting line-up after heavy hints that it had been revamped to please his players.
