Player Quotes

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.

Sammy Lee is another inbred player

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

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

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

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

Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the NBA to another level.

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

Ardilies always says "If you're confident you're always totally different to the player that's lacking confidence"

I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.

What is your position at the company? Right back.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.

I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

Crosby is a great player, but I'd have to say Ovechkin, who is also a great player but doesn't have the same kind of support, and who does something great on almost every shift.

Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP.

Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!

Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

No player can represent Sri Lanka in future without good fitness levels

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

Discipline and consistency is what's expected out of a player.

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

I feel that right from the start the players were prepared to experience catastrophic results with comments like: 'It's going to be tough and we are going to need time'.

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.