Top 100 Best Players Quotes
#1. Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because they return so good and their passing shots are really good. So it's really tough to get there with those players.
Daniela Hantuchova
#2. I want to be the top player in the league, and I want to bring my game to another level. I want to play against the opposition's best players-and I want to beat them.
Jarome Iginla
#3. You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we're going to keep fighting and figuring out ways to beat them.
Scott Brooks
#4. I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.
Webb Simpson
#6. Rooney is one of the best players in the world and I love watching him play. But if you had to pick out only one, then for their history and for all that they have achieved it would have to be Paul Scholes or Ryan Giggs. They are two shining examples for any player.
Andres Iniesta
#7. For years Paul Scholes has been one of the best players in the Premiership. He's incredible. He has always been under-rated throughout his career. He's a team player, a one and two-touch footballer who makes good decisions on the pitch and makes his team play.
Thierry Henry
#8. Its a real honor to be included among the list of finalists, when you see the names that are there, ... Some of the guys who won the Hank Aaron Award in the past are thought of as some of the best players in the history of the game, so just to be included with those guys is really gratifying.
Mark Teixeira
#9. To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.
LeBron James
#10. The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.
Jack Welch
#11. I love competing against the best players. I have a huge challenge, and that's to win a U.S. Open and complete the Grand Slam. I enjoy that challenge. Every year it comes around, I get excited to try to conquer that opportunity. I love it.
Phil Mickelson
#12. I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.
Ilya Kovalchuk
#13. You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed
Jeff Van Gundy
#14. A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared
Jack Ramsay
#15. At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.
David Beckham
#16. In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.
Stephen Potter
#17. People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.
Jack Welch
#18. The best players want to play in the best competition,
Brendan Rodgers
#19. English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.
Arsene Wenger
#20. Of course, the best thing, if you play in the Premier League, you can always develop further as a player, and you are playing against the best players. You are also playing game after game all the time, two or three games a week.
Mesut Ozil
#21. The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
Larry Bird
#22. It's unbelievable to have come through a field of 64 of the best players I've seen for a long time.
Phil Taylor
#23. I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.
Julius Peppers
#24. We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Doc Searls
#25. It's only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He's almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.
Zinedine Zidane
#26. 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.
Rickey Henderson
#27. 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.
Andre Agassi
#28. I want to be one of the best players in the game.
Kevin Durant
#29. There are too many coming from different countries. When we started, foreign players were in the minority. All the best players from Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina are going to England. And Ireland is bound to suffer.
Kevin Kilbane
#30. I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my ... this was always my weakness.
Anatoly Karpov
#31. The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.
Jack Welch
#32. That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.
Michael Chang
#33. Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
Don Meyer
#34. All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
Jack Nicklaus
#35. We're all brought up to believe that the best players show up in the biggest games, and what bigger game than the Super Bowl? I've just been blessed and very lucky to have two of my best games on that stage.
Justin Tuck
#36. The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.
Pat Metheny
#37. I'm obviously coming out of the Australian summer with amazing momentum, knowing I can pretty much hang in there with anybody and even beat some of the best players. So for me, it's definitely a good feeling, I think.
Sloane Stephens
#38. They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.
Red Auerbach
#39. When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.
Bob Toski
#40. Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.
Ronaldinho
#41. Brandon Rush is not just one of the best freshmen in the league, he's one of the best players.
Kelvin Sampson
#42. My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.
Luis Suarez
#43. Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.
Rio Ferdinand
#44. The team with the best players wins.
Jack Welch
#45. LeBron James is the best player, hands down. He is easily moving into the territory of one of the best players of all time and may end up being the best player of all time.
Howard Bryant
#46. Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
Magic Johnson
#47. You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.
Matt Holliday
#48. I started to really believe in myself, and my abilities, when I won the World Under-10 championship in Doral, Florida. I was nine and saw for the first time that I was amongst the best players in the world for my age. This was a massive confidence-builder for me.
Rory McIlroy
#49. You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
Hank Stram
#50. The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.
John Wooden
#51. The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
Bernard Ebbers
#52. So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.
Susan May Warren
#53. Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only comparison over time ... played on the same courses for generations. All the best players are always there.
Jack Nicklaus
#54. 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.
Jerry Rice
#55. I am a big admirer of Paul Scholes, he is one of the best players of his generation.
Arjen Robben
#56. Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.
Bryce Harper
#57. The NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL.
Alexander Ovechkin
#58. 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.
Jerry Rice
#59. The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup.
Paul Azinger
#60. This team [England] has some of the best players in England
David Beckham
#61. My ambition is that I have the best players
who can collaborate with each other to form
the best team in the world.
Louis Van Gaal
#62. Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.
Andre Agassi
#63. Scholesy was a genius, absolute genius. He was a center-forward's dream, you could make a run and he'd put the ball perfectly in your path. Any footballer you ask will always tell you that Scholesy was one of the best players they've ever played with.
Michael Owen
#64. Gareth Bale has been levitated to the status of one of the best players in the world
Perry Groves
#65. Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.
Jack Welch
#66. I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#68. I have been amongst the best players in the world for 8 years. None at that level played as many ties as I did.
Amelie Mauresmo
#69. Your best players have to unite and inspire the group ... otherwise, they'll divide the group
Jeff Van Gundy
#70. I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.
Stan Wawrinka
#71. This is God's way of saying you've achieved so much, here's your chance to play against the world's best players. There's got to be some reason behind it. It has to be God. It's been created because of Him and the belief the boys have in Him.
Jarryd Hayne
#72. I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
Zinedine Zidane
#73. One thing I think you have to do here at Wisconsin is maximize your personnel. From the standpoint of getting our best players out there, you've really got to make sure you're not burying anybody at a position.
Bret Bielema
#74. Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement.
George Vecsey
#75. I wanted to prove people wrong who didn't think I could play at this level. I also wanted to take care of my family. It was a chance to play against the best players in the world. Mentally and physically I don't think I was ready, but I was ready to take on the challenge.
Jermaine O'Neal
#76. The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.
Helen Wills Moody
#77. Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.
George Allen
#78. One of the best players I've ever seen in my life! Spectacular on training!! Playing with him was a joy!
Gerard Pique
#79. It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.
Darren McCarty
#80. You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.
Jermain Defoe
#81. Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
Magic Johnson
#82. The best players are always in the thick of the action. (Michael) Jordan did it with the Bulls, (Kobe) Bryant does it with the Lakers and Leo does it here. We want him to stay with us because he's the best and we wouldn't swap him for anyone.
Ronaldinho
#83. To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.
Dave Winfield
#84. I'm a point guard, I've always been a point guard, I've played point guard all my life. Personally, I feel the best point guards make other players look better and create their own shot. I fit in that category.
Chauncey Billups
#85. To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.
Gerard Houllier
#86. What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.
Alan Hansen
#87. Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.
Moses Malone
#88. And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.
Dweezil Zappa
#89. When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.
Scott Lynch
#90. I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.
Ronaldinho
#91. I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
#92. 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.
Walter Becker
#93. About strip clubs and athletes. The best way I can explain why a lot of players end up there is because it's one of the safest places a high-profile person can spend time in a boring city.
Shaquille O'Neal
#94. If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
Landon Donovan
#95. I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.
Paul Pierce
#96. I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.
Roger Goodell
#97. I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.
Kobe Bryant
#98. There is a finite group of major financial players ... and overall, the best thing for all of us is to be in an industry that's well respected, well regarded, and well thought of.
Gary Cohn
#99. Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the game. He was probably the best player I ever played over my career. There's a list of players that were tough, but Andre, certainly, he was the most unique.
Pete Sampras
#100. All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class
Zinedine Zidane
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