Player Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

What is your position at the company? Right back.

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.

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

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.

When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

I said to the players before the start, 'Just go out and give it 100 per cent. I am not asking for any more than that'.

That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

Paul Newman is not a very good pool player.

I don't believe a player is ever a finished product.

When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis.

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.

Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton.

When a player knows he is a slave he'll never give his employer his heart.

Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that.

I tell anyone who asks me - Scholes is the best English player.

There is only one, believe it or not. I did get knocked up by a baller. A big football player.

I'm not a good guitar player.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.

Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength... all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there’s media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do

We do not believe in oversupplying the market. When you are a large company, you can afford to do it. When you are a small player, your flexibility gets reduced.

I'm the type of player I am.

Players will never do more than you demand.

If it happens that I score 50 goals, it'll be awesome. Any player in the league would like 50. But I don't keep thinking every day that I have to score in order to reach 50 goals .

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

Rex brings out the macho talk and tells everyone this is what we're going to be and what we're going to do. And you see what happened. The players did it. It worked.

When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.