Player Quotes

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

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 am just a player trying to do what Im told.

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.

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.

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.

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

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

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.

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.

First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.

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

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

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.

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.

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.

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

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'.

The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.

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.

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

You will never see players from City surround the referee.

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them.

There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

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

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year.

Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

As the game gets bigger, it get bigger for the players.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

My daughter MacKenzie is so important to me. I have a tattoo on my arm for her. My roommate gave me the name for her.

A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.

Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.

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

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

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

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

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.

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