Player Quotes

I don't think players care too much about stats and statistics.

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence.

A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We.

Kenny Dalglish is a hero of mine and is the best player to ever wear a red shirt.

I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

You know as a player that you won’t have many opportunities to play in World Cups - so you have to take them when you can.

What invariably distinguishes a good player from a poor one is their respective address positions or setups.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I am and will always be just simply a basball player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.

Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are.

If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, great player, world class player, the English Zizou.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.

I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.

Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.

I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.

I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one

Some players need a boot up their backside. Other players need the arm

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes you just know.

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.

The players themselves can be classified into two groups- the attractions and the entry fees.

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.

I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.

I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

I'm looking forward to playing against Sidney Crosby as much as I am looking forward to playing against all of the other players in the NHL. And there is no rivalry.

Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.

At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

When I buy, I buy players for the long term, not the short term because I do respect the club a lot and also the other clubs.