Player Quotes

For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.

If it happens that I score 50 goals, it'll be awesome. Any player in the league would like 50. But I don't keep thinking every day that I have to score in order to reach 50 goals .

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player!

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.

You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naïve and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."

Every football player knows when his time is up.

It hit the damn papers that I was being chased through the woods with dogs and choppers. I mean, who the hell are we after here, John Dillinger? For Chrissakes, I'm just a lowly guitar player.

I don't judge my success in life as a football player.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.

You always catch the wrong players.

The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.

You measure a player from the head up.

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

I have had situations in the past when you are close to signing a player and the money involved switches from euros to pounds to dollars. It is a difficult process, but one we have to work with.

Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.

The NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL.

When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

You don't ever lose your dream. You don't give that up. I tell that to the players. If you don't have dreams, you don't have anything to live for.

The players have to come and play. Today we did.

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

When we have the football, everybody’s a player.

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.