Player Quotes

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.

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!

Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.

I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had...they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player. play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.

If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players.

You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You don't have to do that. They know you're in charge.

If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

You were only a goalkeeper.

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.

If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.

There are so many games that I've seen that I've learned from. I never - that's also part of the same - never single out a particular player or a particular game.

I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes

The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.

It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines.

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

If I haven't played with a player before and I don't know anything about them, the more they tell me about themselves, the better I will be able to judge how they think and how they play.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.