Top 100 Great Player Quotes
#1. Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.
Michel Patini
#2. One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.
Tim Tebow
#3. People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
#4. I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#5. I've been around so long that I might be in record books for being the longest, weirdest, most pathetic great player ever. Look t how precocious I am at 33.
Vince Spadea
#6. I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.
Gaines Adams
#7. I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.
John McEnroe
#8. Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
Johan Cruijff
#9. 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
#10. I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.
Alex Ferguson
#11. The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.
Alex Ferguson
#12. Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.
Joe Paterno
#13. He is such a great player that he has the capabilities to let no one affect his game.
(on David Beckham)
Steve McClaren
#14. There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don
Steve Waugh
#15. Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand.
Goran Ivanisevic
#16. I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.
Harmon Killebrew
#17. A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.
John Wooden
#18. I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we're about, anyway. Alexander, Alexander, Alexander. But it's about the brotherhood. Shaun's a great player, but we have a lot of weapons around here.
Chuck Darby
#19. He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full."
Jerry Glanville
#20. In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.
Viswanathan Anand
#21. What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.
Thierry Henry
#22. I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.
Carlos Beltran
#23. Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player
Mike Krzyzewski
#24. Michel Platini has no bottle. He is not a great player.
Eamon Dunphy
#25. Kenny Dalglish would be my first choice for Liverpool's best ever player because he was a great player with a lot of qualities.
Rafael Benitez
#26. Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player
Eamon
#28. You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.
Mats Wilander
#29. I'm a cocky sumb**itch. That's what makes me such a great player.
Lawrence Taylor
#30. Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see ... be your son.
Harmon Killebrew
#31. In Scotland, I have to say I'm more fond of Glasgow Rangers - not celtc - and there is a great player who played for them, who is still alive today, Willie Henderson. I met up with him recently when Benfica played celtc again.
Eusebio
#32. When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.
Joe Mauer
#33. The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz ... you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.
Keith Jarrett
#34. You always miss a great player, but I think the players on this team have taken a lot of pride in overcoming obstatcles when we have a player down ? not only the offensive players, but the defensive players. We were very fortunate that we played that well.
Bobby Petrino
#35. Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he's a great player, and what you've seen with him is he's gotten better every year.
Eli Manning
#36. I'm not jumping through the gym by any means. But I don't need to be able to do that in order to be a great player.
Kobe Bryant
#37. The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
Phil Jackson
#38. How wonderful it is to celebrate a 27 years career! When you moved from basket ball to music, the world of sports lost a great player, but music won a great singer. You transmit good vibrations, a wonderful energy on the stage.
Simone Bittencourt De Oliveira
#39. A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.
John Wooden
#40. Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.
Dominique Wilkins
#41. I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.
Champ Bailey
#42. Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.
Common
#43. I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
Dennis Rodman
#44. He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#45. The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
Pele
#46. It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.
Mark Dvoretsky
#47. If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
Dan Marino
#48. I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
John McEnroe
#49. Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper
#50. Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.
Warren Gatland
#51. I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.
Keith Emerson
#52. To be a great player, you have to
affect the entire unit.
Nick Saban
#53. The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Sam Snead
#54. Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.
Byron Nelson
#55. Crosby is a great player, but I'd have to say Ovechkin, who is also a great player but doesn't have the same kind of support, and who does something great on almost every shift.
Jaromir Jagr
#56. Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.
Eric Cantona
#57. The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.
Savielly Tartakower
#58. Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.
Jeanette Lee
#59. Tim Price is one of the real ones !
A good friend and a great player !
Phil Woods
#60. I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.
Ritchie Blackmore
#61. When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.
Nick Price
#63. Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.
Ricky Ponting
#64. Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#65. You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player
Jon Gordon
#66. I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.
Guy Forget
#67. The great player, so much of the greatness, in my mind, is in his heart and his head. It's not in his body, in his skill set. It comes from having great talent but wanting to mold that and fit it together into being special. And being special means winning championships.
George Karl
#68. Play off your great player ... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.
Don Meyer
#70. Paul Scholes. The best! Great player, person, friend!
Gary Neville
#71. Kara Braxton, she's a great player, so I think they can go far this year.
Kelly Miller
#72. To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli.
Sunil Gavaskar
#73. I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.
Doug Collins
#74. Jack Del Rio and myself are very similar except he's really good looking and was a great player. Other than that, we're very similar.
Rex Ryan
#75. To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!
Sourav Ganguly
#76. He can play. He can shoot. He can dribble. He can pass. He's a great player. Period. No question about it. And if anyone thinks Dirk is not a great player, I'll punch them in their face.
Shaquille O'Neal
#77. We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
Bobby Knight
#78. The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance
Red Holzman
#79. For me, Paul Scholes is on the same level as Ronaldo. The real Ronaldo, not Cristiano. I always thought he was a great player but after I played alongside him I realised he was Manchester United's greatest player of all time. He did his talking on the pitch which I respected most.
Fabien Barthez
#80. What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
Bill Russell
#82. He's got a great right foot, and if he can get his head around that he'll be a great player.
Ray Wilkins
#83. To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#84. Of course I would like to play with Cristiano Ronaldo - he is a great player.
Luis Suarez
#85. There are a lot of great players ... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
Dizzy Gillespie
#86. This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon
Maria Sharapova
#87. I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
#88. I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.
Johnny Weir
#89. Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.
Frank Caliendo
#90. It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.
Luke Donald
#91. He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.
Franz Beckenbauer
#92. It's great if you can afford to carry a string section on the road with you, but most people are used to the idea of just a keyboard player creating those string sounds.
Todd Rundgren
#93. Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.
Brian O'Driscoll
#94. As long as you can find a place to develop as an all-round player, then you're doing great.
Peter Uihlein
#95. I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.
Duncan Sheik
#96. LeBron James has cemented himself as one of the GREAT PLAYERS of ALL TIME.
Stephen A. Smith
#97. My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
John Cusack
#98. My mom always tells me that ... Nobody is going to remember you for the great basketball player you are but they will remember you for the character you have off the court and how many lives you're changed.
Isaiah Austin
#99. Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.
Luis Figo
#100. I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.
John Rocker
