Player Quotes

Russel Westbrook is a guy that impacts the game maybe like no other player in this league.

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

No player can represent Sri Lanka in future without good fitness levels

Discipline and consistency is what's expected out of a player.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

I want to be the best player possible.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.

I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool)

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

Get your players on who can unlock the door and sooner or later they will break the door down

I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.

Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had.

I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still pick up things. If you watch individual players you will see genius.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

If I win, I attract other good players and by doing that I win more games.

Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

You name it, I've got it. Some players have to be 100 percent (to play), but I don't.

My job is to make the players I'm playing with better. I'm going to be the cat that does a lof of the ‘other things.'

The skilled players can be skilled players and they're not impeded.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

Psychology plays a big part but I always say psychology will only be a differentiator when the players are of equal technical strength.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.