Player Quotes

The money players are on these days is immoral, but you can't knock it

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice hockey player.

I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.

The shopping is not finished and before the pre-season starts I would like to bring in another two players. I like shopping, maybe I have become a woman.

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

The difference between ordinary players and champions is the way they think.

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.

A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.

My first ball I ever got from a big-league player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.

But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.

I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.

[Didier] Drogba sent me a text message after I won the African Player of the Year award. It made me very happy.

With [Samuel] Eto'o, I talked a lot about his great career and how I could become a better player.

I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

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!'

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

Every player, every coach doesn't always see eye to eye.

The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.

My thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That's who I am, and that's what I'm here for.

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

I don't think some of the players understand what the people are about. The people are coming out to show you their appreciation of the game, and the player that you are.

I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

If you're 0-0 down, there's no-one better to get you back on terms than Ian Wright.

King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players.

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

Early in my career, I had no consistency. Now I'm the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

Paul Newman is not a very good pool player.