Player Quotes

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

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.

Cheerleading is life, you must give it your all, and always strive to be on top. It teaches you so much, from how to be a team player, leadership, dedication, confidence, and many other qualities.

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.

When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.

I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.

I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.

In high school, when you're a top player, there are ways of getting eligible, ways of getting out of going to class. It made going to the next level, which is college, that much harder.

Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.

Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.

Coaching to me is correcting mistakes and trying to get your players to think. If raising your voice occasionally gets them to think better, then that's called coaching.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

As a professional, as a person, and as a player, I think he's fantastic. It's like he's dancing the tango. I just love how he plays football so elegantly. To me, Andres is Don Andres.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can.

There is no doubt about it, Messi's clearly the best player in the world. He's a phenomenon who has already won everything, but is still hungry for more. His humbleness only makes him greater.

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi.

Is he ever going to learn?

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. A great entertainer needs to have charisma.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.

In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked.

Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

Wayne Bennett believes in himself and his players, and he always will.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.