Players Quotes

All the cameras shifted from the players to me.

Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.

I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media.

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually.

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'