Player Quotes

I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.

The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."

The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice.

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

I'm the quiet bass player.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

I don't know an England player who could fix a light bulb, let alone a match

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

I'm just trying to work hard every day, trying to be a better player and one day, to be right there with them, one of those special hitters.

You have to take the good with the bad. Some players only talk to the press when they are doing good. When you're doing bad you shouldn't shy away from them and when doing good, don't run up to them.

What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.

I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.

Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

I definitely think with a lot of hard work, I can be a better player than I was last year, and hopefully, continue to raise the bar every year.

The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player.

This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back.

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. (on Manchester United)

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

Palmer was the big gun as far as getting the tour to where it is today. He was the most charismatic player ever. He did everything the public wanted him to do.

Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.

If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

Good ball players make good citizens.

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.

Lionel Messi is the most amazing player I have ever seen.

Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better.

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now