Emotional Player Quotes

#1. I'm an emotional player ... I like to leave it out there.

Andy Roddick

#2. I'm a very emotional player. I use emotion because my team feeds off it.

Jermaine O'Neal

#3. I've never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an emotional player. I don't really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It's totally reliable and it's alive. I can hear what it's saying.

Tori Amos

#4. What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

Arnold Palmer

#5. Musicians sort of knew this already - that the emotional center is not the technical center, that funky grooves are not square, and what sounds like a simple beat can either be sensuous or simply a metronomic timekeeper, depending on the player.

David Byrne

#6. We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

Frank Lorenzo

#7. If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.

Gary Moore

#8. You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

Merlin Olsen

#9. I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional.

Jennie Finch

#10. To the voters in 1960, the name Nikita Khrushchev carried great emotional significance. To these students, he sounded like just another hockey player.

Leonard Mlodinow

#11. Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.

Mark Dvoretsky

#12. More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.

John Eskow