Player Quotes

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.

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.