Player Quotes

The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.

Rahul Dravid is a player who would walk on broken glass if his team asks him to

A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

Orr is the greatest young hockey player that's come along since I've been here.

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

I'm the most loyal player money can buy.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me 'the special one!'

I was a guitar player first off.

I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

The skilled players can be skilled players and they're not impeded.

Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

My job is to make the players I'm playing with better. I'm going to be the cat that does a lof of the ‘other things.'

If I were on the field, I'd want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that.

That's one thing I pride myself on is working hard in the weight room, working hard in practice, trying to become a better player.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

You name it, I've got it. Some players have to be 100 percent (to play), but I don't.

Michel Platini has no bottle. He is not a great player.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

Sachin is the greatest player I have seen. I consider it an honour to have rubbed shoulders with him

Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion

Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

All I wanted to be was a player.

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.