Player Quotes

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.

Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.

I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

I didn't have a record player.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.

No band is special, no player royalty.

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'