Player Quotes

But we have the players, as we have shown against good opposition this season, we're an extremely difficult side to live with at home. (on Chelsea)

I think when you have spent the money that we have, it's bound to bring it's own pressure. The players have shown that they can handle that though. (on Chelsea)

Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.

There's a few ugly ones. Carlo is probably the best looking [on chelsea players]

Eden Hazard is a great player. He has magic

I am certainly not the most talented player in the world; there's many a more talented player than me.

I think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone?

Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

My greatest thrill? That's easy. It came the day Mr. McGraw named his 20 all-time players. I'm ninth on that list and that is thrill enough to last me a lifetime.

It's not easy when you come in as the highest-paid player and you're 14.

A lot of players in Europe aren't as tall as the other guys, so they have to be stocky to physically compete.

I need more time to develop as a player and as a person.

I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.

If you're a skilled player, you want to use your skill, not just hit the puck.

I'm following the players, and it's great. We've never had so many Top 10 big players like now. There's so many out there that are very close.

As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us.

That showed a total lack of disrespect from the player.

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.

When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

...an excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side.

I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to expose the people to it.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.

The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

David Cone is in a class by himself with three or four other players.

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player.

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die.

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

As a player leaving early, you always look back and wonder what could have been. But you have to be happy with your decisions, because you ultimately have to live with them.

When a player gets to 30, so does his body

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

Arsene Wenger was talking about comparisons with Johan Cruyff, a player who only comes around every 10 years and Thierry Henry is definitely one of those

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather.... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact.

There's a difference in a player that has a job and a player that doesn't have a job.

I won't be fining players for getting sent off.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.