Player Quotes

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

It seems like teams want a guy who can get 10, 11, 12 assists. That's the kind of player I want to be. Sometimes that is more important than scoring 30 points a night.

If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

Let your players know that you love them.

Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

Barack Obama is the founder of ISIS. He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton.

It's been a company [Exxon] that's been unbelievably managed and to me, a great advantage is Rex Tillerson knows many of the players and he knows them well.

Tiger Woods is stupid; not for cheating, but for having one cell phone. What type of player you know has one cell phone?

Player safety is definitely something that has to be at the top of the list. I think that the union and the NFL are doing all they can to make sure they're protecting the players the best they can.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee.

When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not always going to be comfortable."

Players get a window of opportunity. Quarterbacks, specifically, usually get one.

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. Thats history right there.

That is NOT the arse of a £7million player!

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

For skills and tricks, Ronaldinho was the best player I've played with.

His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.

My father was an all-American football player.

I am working on it but I don't thinking having a good serve is the most important thing. It is about a lot of things coming together that makes you a good player.

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.

All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.

Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.