Player Quotes

Knowing your coach has confidence in you is big for a young player.

As a player, I like playing as much cricket as possible, irrelevant of the format.

When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.

My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.

It's important to me to be a complete player.

I take a lot of favorite moves from great players and add them to my repertoire.

In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.

I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.

Ovechkin does not play like a Russian. He plays like an NHL player.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.

My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.

I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

I'm a confident player, I know I can score. I don't think anyone can guard me consistently off the dribble. But I'm a team player.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player.

He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.

My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.