Player Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.

I can't fault my players. We created a lot of chances but we missed out on a victory because of the woodwork and goalkeeper Bonano, who did very well.

Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.

He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him.

Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.

It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

I believe in myself, especially with how hard I've worked. I'm one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I've proven myself.

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.

My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

My aim is to create a happy environment where the players are working hard, but enjoying themselves. You've got to enjoy yourself, and you've got to have a bit of fun as well.

Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players.

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.