Player Quotes

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

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

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

It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you.

I've worked on the physical side and I think I'm a player that can do most things.

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.

What is your position at the company? Right back.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Players will never do more than you demand.

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

I think there are some players born to play ball.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

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.

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!

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.

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.'

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.

Too many people look on outscoring someone as winning, I never tried to get that across to my players.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.