Player Quotes

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.

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

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

Paul Newman is not a very good pool player.

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.

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.

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'.

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

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.

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.

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.

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.

You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.

There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.

Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.

Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.

He is an exceptional talent. I still think Diego Maradona is the best player I have ever seen but Messi is closing in fast. He's a wonderful sight in full flight and we are lucky to have him around.

You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed.

I think I'm a really tough player.

The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.

Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final

What we do at LSU is to develop players and make them better.

They just love to complain about me because I'm an American who gets more press than their Canadian players.

Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n' roll women manual for women.

Russel Westbrook is a guy that impacts the game maybe like no other player in this league.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.