Player Quotes

Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career in the game.

Not one day goes by when I don't remind myself of how grateful I am for those who came before me over the last 25 years. When I see players like Mike Schmidt and Johnny Bench, I thank them.

Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

A championship team wins because it already has established players, while a talented team is just beginning to establish players.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.

Kobe Bryant is the most talented player in the game today; he could do anything.

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her." "Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.

I'm obsessed with hockey and my son's a big player. I spend a lot of time driving to the ice rink and I'm a huge Los Angeles Kings fan. So, yeah, I'm a hockey mama - a cool hockey mama.

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

I have been amongst the best players in the world for 8 years. None at that level played as many ties as I did.

I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.

Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition.

Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

My focus was always first and foremost to stop the puck. I never let the other players on the other team get to me.

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

I'm an emotional player ... I like to leave it out there.

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

I can be one of the dominant players, maybe the dominant player, in the East.

NBA gets to see these players develop more..Did Lebron need another year, Did Kobe need another year

I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.

We have a great field and I'm very happy about that. It's a tough time of year as it gets closer to the Masters, but I'm appreciative of the players who are here, and I'm expecting a great week.

You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player.

I dont see gold as a player in a healthy economy.

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

I never give up on my players, and I'll never give up on people.

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

There are no shortcuts to good golf. The better players realize this.

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

Some venues are more intimidating than others, but as professional players you enjoy the intimidating places more than the other kind.

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.