Player Quotes

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'.

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

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.

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

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.

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

There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long

Darren Fletcher is the type of player who would walk over hot coals to play for his country, and he has done

Messi or Ronaldo best player in the world? In the world, I would say Ronaldo. Messi is from another planet.

He's one of the most coachable players out there.

Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.

Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move.

To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'

Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.

You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that.

I like it when girls are screaming for me. It makes me feel really player-like. I enjoy being out there, delivering my songs, and putting a face to the music.

If I would go out against some of these players and see them as their ranking, then I probably would have already lost before I even stepped on the court.

Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude.

There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.