be nice

You’re taking away his confidence that people are going to be nice and feed them.

"I want to score in every game and tomorrow is just another game to try to do that. It would be nice for me, it'd be nice for the team also, so let's see," he said.

To this, Oliver riffed, "What's Putin ever done to Zelenskyy other than kill tens of thousands of his people and cause untold damage to his country? Can't he find anything good to say about him? Like how his cheeks are puffy like a couple of Hawaiian rolls . . . It's not that hard to be nice!"

Growing up, Plum always had been taught to “be nice to people” and “play nice” and to be a team player.

Added Dailey Jr. of Cronin: “I feel like coach teaches us a lot of lessons that don’t pertain to basketball, too. A lot of life lessons, a lot of real-life situations…He’s just a real coach, a real person, and that’s really what you need to survive in this real world…he yells, but everything in the world is not going to be nice and pretty. So I think that’s making us tough for the real world.”