Player Quotes

Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say. I'm not like this perfect, buttoned-up, suit-and-tie guy.

For me, as a 14-year-old aspiring to be in the NBA, I wanted to hear from players.

I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league.

In my walks of life, I've understood that it takes more than one person to think of achieving a goal, and it takes more than one or two players, to get you out of the position you're in.

The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet

It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.

I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.

It was a good feeling to have a lot of support. A lot of people respect me as a player but also as a person as well.

It's really up to me to speed up my learning curve as a player so I can contribute in a much bigger way night in and night out.

Big players want to play in front of big audiences.

I'm definitely looking to put together a full season. I know what I'm capable of doing. I want to be the kind of player my teammates can depend on.

I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

I'm not jumping through the gym by any means. But I don't need to be able to do that in order to be a great player.

It's wonderful for the players. It's a huge challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our butts in gear. Phil isn't going to bail us out because of our mental lapses.

I don’t want to say I’ll be back at the top of my game because everybody’s gonna think I’m crazy and it’s the old player not letting go sort of thing, but that’s what it’s gonna be.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

If a guy won't commit, he's a player.

I think Marshawn Lynch is the most important player in this football game.

I'm in a great situation because I know what kind of player I want to be, I know where I'm going to be, and I know what I have to do to get there and I'm around the right guys.

I have always been a leader on my team. I have always been a guy that held player-only meetings. I'm the type of guy that stood up and said something. I know how to lead.

You walk in our locker room and you see Pau Gasol, you see Andrew Bynum, you see Kobe, you see Ron Artest ... we have so many players that can play.

I move very well. Being able to go at different types of players, that's where I have an advantage.

I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

Do I feel pressure being a young player with high expectations? Nah.

My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.

Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success.

People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.

And Daniel?" She asked. "Daniel was a player-" "Hey!" "That's what they called the actors." Bill rolled his eyes.

As players, we always have a way to get back at you.

Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.

A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.

A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.

When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.

Players recognize the sense of humility that comes with the cap and with wearing the cap.

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

Every player, in his secret heart, wants to manage one day. Every fan, in the privacy of his mind, already does.

I think players changing coaches is normal.

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.

Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.

The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.