Player Quotes

It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

When it was time for a player to go, he went.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

I was surprised I won the award because I've always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I'm an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.

It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.

Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.