Player Quotes

I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

I monitor the food my players eat on a Friday night. It's no good if they've had two vindaloos and a kebab.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

One of the best players I've ever seen in my life! Spectacular on training!! Playing with him was a joy!

I didn't have a record player.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

That's how it is with the English: if you score against them you're a good player; if you don't, you're not.

Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?

I have played with some great players during my time at United but I would have to put Paul Scholes down as the best.

I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.

I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.

When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.

I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly.

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

Winning is irrelevant when you’re 11 or 12 years old. It really is it. At youth tournaments, I look at the technical ability of the players. Whether the team wins or loses - I don’t care.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

I can play in the 11 positions because a good player can play anywhere on the pitch.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.