Player Quotes

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

When Jason Koumas is on form, he's the type of player who calls all the strings

I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

Only one thing can stop Luis Suarez from being voted as the Players' Player of the Year... his fellow players.

You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.

I am always playing hard trying to win. Just knowing that at one time I was once that kid that looked up to NBA players and NFL players. Today these kids look up me.

He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full."

I would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually.

It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

When I retire and I'm back at home with me kids, they're not going to care that I smiled too much on the field. They're not going to care what kind of team player I was.

.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players

I think the (brawl) made the league and the players more conscious of our responsibility to the public.

But I don't know how I really felt about Johnny Manziel, but I feel like now everyone hates him. He's quickly becoming my favorite player in college football.

I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean.

But I end up with these bands who have players from literally all over the world.

Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.

We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.

Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!

Serena Williams best female player ever - no question.

While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.

For best results, the competitive player should never depart from his area of expertise

Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.

A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

Jimmer Fredette is the best scorer in the world!!

You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.

The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head.

I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different.

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.

Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

The ABA really loosened up the NBA and introduced innovations like the three-point shot and the Slam Dunk and other competitions at the All Star Game. And we had all the hot young players.