Player Quotes

I am not a player.

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

I am not a player anymore.

I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.

If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court.