Player Quotes

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

I am going to be a professional soccer player.

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player during their husband's oppressive regime.

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.

There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player.

I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

A gifted player, who is not a team player, will ultimately hurt the team.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

It took me a while to realize I'm an NBA player.

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

She’s not much of a team player, more of a team yeller.

I'm just a basketball player, you know? Just put me where you need me.

I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.

I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

I don't see it happening unless every NBA player is given a stipend to buy clothes.

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.

I'm a struggling guitar player.

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

Rocky is a warrior, we've had a lot of great battles starting from when I was 16. He's a true team player, great fighter, and I have a ton of respect for him.

I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm just getting started. Variety is a secret to the success of that.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.

A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.

I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.

All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.

People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'