Player Quotes

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be the dominant player .

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

I like to breed players that attack people.

I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.

Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.

Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

Concussion? How the hell can they tell? They're *football* players, for chrissakes!

If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average player

Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player

I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.

It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

We have to remember Damien Duff is one of the most good players in the Premiership

I'm very young. This gives me a perfect opportunity to play for a good team and be close to home, to grow as a player. (on signing for D.C. United)

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.

There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.

Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

I was my own worst enemy in my debut. Not one player tested my mechanics.

I would prefer to tell a young player what to do than how to do it.

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

I can go to a lot of games, but I'm not a player. I'm kind of an observer. That's why I think I do what I do in life. I just observe. That's what I find fascinating.

...the last player I truly idolize... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona)

Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground, and look at it now!

I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.

The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get to know the players and coaches anymore.

Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.

I weighed the pros and cons of both, and college outweighed the pro ranks at the time and I'm definitely glad I made the choice to come to Oregon State because I'm a better player for it.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

I think that players that are better at reading people are much more dangerous and difficult to play against, because then you have to think more about what they might be thinking.

Every player should take 5 minutes to themselves before practice and mentally lock into what needs to be done.

Grady Nichols is the awesome new sax player for the millennium.

You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they do it. They look at sales as an art, not a science.

Most strong players are completely self-centered.... They are blind to how other people feel or else simply don't care.

Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.

More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people