Player Quotes

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.

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 was always a closet blues player.

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

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.

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.