Player Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

A great chess player always has a very good memory.

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

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

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.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.

If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you.

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.

Ronaldo is a unique player for all of his talent and his professionalism. He is a player who is extraordinarily consistent.

If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

All this world is but a play... be thou the joyful player.

I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

My favorite player is Tiger Woods. I think I can beat Tiger when I'm 20. It's a life goal.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.

Goals determine what you are going to be

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

I don't drop players. I make changes.

Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player'.

I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.

Many of the Iranian players show their Christian names on their shirts.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

I learned how to play against players better than me.

Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.