Player Quotes

... 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.

George Best was the greatest player in the world.

As players and coaches, we all want to reach our goal. It's up to us to go out there and perform.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.

You're going to be a great player, kid.

Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don't just react but are able to act and think.

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

Messi won 3 Ballons d'Or and is competing for another one. He will be the best player in the world until he retires.

Often it feels like we are at a home match when we have so many fans there. The singing, the cheering helps the players. (on Chelsea playing on the road)

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players.

The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.

Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

Some of their players are internationals; some play for their national team.

There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK because I don't like their games.

Liverpool players must play like a lion, give his all. There must be determination, commitment and resolve to be a Liverpool player.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

I'm always learning new ways to improve my game from both players older and younger than me.

When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.

He's a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

I think that the Brazilian football is one of the best in the world. It still is and still struggles for this. We have talented players that can take Brazil to the top.

Not too many players try to bluff me. If there’s going to be bluffing or stealing going on, I’m going to be the one doing to it.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.