Player Quotes

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

Thierry Henry my grandchildren, hopefully my great grandchildren gonna have to hear about him because is super, absolutely super, top guy, top player

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'

I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

I believe in my heart I'm the best player in the world. I'm just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I'm just confident in my ability to play ball.

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes

He [Beckham] has two feet, which a lot of players don't have nowadays.

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.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

Name 12 players better than me.

I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?

Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

A great chess player always has a very good memory.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

He's a fantastic player and he's going to be around so much longer so I'm happy with every one I get before he takes them all

As a coach, I want players to challenge me, to question me and ask why we're doing a certain thing, so they feel that they're taking ownership.

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard.

Players who have more great games than other players are the great players.

There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.

I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.

A player should never be selfish and should always contribute to team's victory.

When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.