Player Quotes

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

I am the most loyal player money can buy.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

Beckham is a nice man and I'm sure he will reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

I like my groundstrokes, I can say. I like it. That's my game - I'm a groundstroke player and I play pretty aggressive.