Player Quotes

Systems don't win, players do.

It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar.

Samuel Eto'o is reputedly the highest-paid player in the world at £350,000 per week - that's £5,000 a day

I am a saxophone player.

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

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

For me, Marouane Fellaini has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League over the last few seasons. If he continues to improve at United, we’ll have a really good player on our hands.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.

There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

I yell at the players if I don't like the way they are playing. But when they're playing well, I hug them.

This is the best club in the world with the best fans, so I'm very proud to be a Liverpool player for the next four years and hopefully even longer.

For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited players who were Uncle Toms.

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

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.

Having Messi in the team guarantees everything. He doesn't just score, he gives assists, and he works and wins the ball. He is the best player in the world.

I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.

The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

The end goal is to become FIFA Women's Player of the Year.

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join Manchester United.

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.

I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?

We have to reduce our expectations of England and we have the players to do it

The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.