Player Quotes

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

LeSean McCoy has become the most exciting player in the National Football League. I believe he’s the MVP this year.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.

We care about how many players you develop rather than how many trophies you win.

Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.

Messi could be the best player in the world - if he was human.

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year...unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable.

I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

The Russians are the dirtiest players I’ve ever seen.

I became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.

There’s nothing better than excelling at a game you love. There’s nothing worse than thinking your accomplishments as a player outweigh your responsibilities as a person.

I want to be one of the best players in the game.

My coaching philosophy? Determine your players talents and give them every weapon to get the most from those talents.

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.

Sammy Lee is another inbred player

It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.

I've seen some players with very big feet ... and some with very small feet.

You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.

One or two of their players aren't getting any younger

I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

A couple of years ago, I was following players. Now, I'm trying to have guys follow me.

Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Well, it used to be Kobe Bryant... the second best all time.... now, I have a new favorite player to play against... my former teammate, LeBron James.

I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

I think social media has allowed the players to be able to say things that maybe didn't come out right the first time and say what they really meant. I think that it keeps people fair and honest.