Player Quotes

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.

You never know who will win and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year.

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.

A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

Every football player knows when his time is up.

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

All I wanted to be was a player.

Then I want to beat Anthony Davis' shot-block record, and I want to win National Player of the Year. I definitely plan to put the work in to accomplish those goals.

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.

I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.