Player Quotes

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.

[Being a coach] is totally different, but I have a new level of respect for coaching that I didn't as a player. So much is expected of you and from your team. Everything falls on your shoulders.

As a player you can have a bad game and come back for the next game. As a coach you really can't do that. You have to dissect games night in and night out and figure what you did wrong.

Pit Riley had a lasting effect on us as players and the coaching staff.

What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country.

Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

I always talked to my players about today. It's the only day that matters.

The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.

The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.

When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.

I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.

I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.

A lot of players go into a restaurant and ask for a special table. I go and stand in line with the working people. It's very easy to get spoiled playing professional sports.

Before I met Jesus I wanted to be a professional pool player.

Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.

Jeter is a six-tool player...I've never eaten with him so I can't tell you if he has good table mannners, but I would imagine he has those too.

That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

If you want to make [your own way in music] it as a player, which is very difficult, as Art Blakey said to me, "We're blessed to have the opportunity to do this." So just keep that in mind.

[We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and composer and arranger. There's a lot of ways you can make a contribution.

Teaching has definitely become a big part of my life in the past ten plus years. As it often does for many dedicated players. Because you can have some great gigs.

Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.

The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out.

I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now...I've grown as a player and as a man.

Don't hate the player, Todd, hate the game.

The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player.

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players.

I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

There are a lot of good racquetball players out there, but playing the game and knowing the game are two different things. Because I had no direction, I had to feel the game.

The first thing I do when I get there—like all of the players on tour—is apply sunscreen. One of the few hazards of the job is the wear-and-tear our skin takes from the sun.

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that.

Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

Rafe didn't just flirt-he charmed girls right up to the point where they fell for him, then he changed his mind.I called him a player with attention deficit disorder.

We're being very good team players here and very happy we've got a great working relationship with Reince Priebus and the RNC. They've been spectacular to us.

Brandon Rush is not just one of the best freshmen in the league, he's one of the best players.

We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection to it. It'd be wonderful.

With a versatile player, there's no spot on the court you can't pass him the ball. You can do anything.

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.