Players Quotes

Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

I think players tend to get anxious if they've not really done things properly - like eating, resting or training. If you're fully prepared you've got nothing to worry about - it's just a game of football.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players.

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.

Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

You are always going to get extreme views around coaches and players.

I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.