Player Quotes

Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win.

Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had to play another in his place.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

For young players, classic games are brand new. For older players, they bring back memories and make you feel good.

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.

No one player is as good as the sum of a team

Lahm is the most intelligent player I have ever trained in my career

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.

I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi.

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.

The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance

I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.

I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.

The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

I don't have bad relationships with my players. But I don't get into long conversations with them either.

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Torres was easily the best player I have ever played with in my career. I loved him. And when he approached me and said he wanted out, it was like a knife to the heart.

I don't need the Ballon d'Or to know I'm the best. It matters more to some players

I havent seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.

Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.