Players Quotes

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

With some other top players I'm part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There's so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

We are looking to get counties to play their young England players earlier, and the first reports from the counties are that it is working well. It also helps us to prepare in a better fashion.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.

We'll have all the same players... We'll be missing one, actually.

I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.

I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.

The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.

You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.

It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.