Great Players Sayings

#1. Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

Michel Patini

#2. The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

Cam Newton

#3. There are a lot of great players ... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.

Dizzy Gillespie

#4. 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

#5. Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little balls of bullshit, we could all become players in that great universal orchestra again.

Anthony Kiedis

#6. Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.

Frank Caliendo

#7. I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

Hank Stram

#8. Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

Eddie Murray

#9. 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

#10. 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.

Marcus Allen

#11. LeBron James has cemented himself as one of the GREAT PLAYERS of ALL TIME.

Stephen A. Smith

#12. Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#13. What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it ... The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all ... When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

Mark Twain

#14. At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.

Luis Suarez

#15. Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.

James T. Conway

#16. I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

Kobe Bryant

#17. I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

Ian Rush

#18. 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

#19. Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.

Ben Crenshaw

#20. The USGA doesn't want to recognize the fact that today's players are better than ever. They seem willing to do anything to prevent us from shooting scores that would make us appear better than the great names of the past.

Hale Irwin

#21. The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.

Michael Lewis

#22. Players who have more great games than other players are the great players.

Graeme Souness

#23. Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

Mike Simpson

#24. He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.

Jerry Wexler

#25. Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

Jerry West

#26. I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

Mark Messier

#27. People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.

Elvis Costello

#28. I think the deal is not great for the players. It is definitely an owner-friendly deal.

Jeremy Roenick

#29. The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

Jay Bilas

#30. Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline

Tom Izzo

#31. Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.

Marv Levy

#32. It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

Anne Lamott

#33. Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates

Bernd Schuster

#34. Possessing an array of athletic gifts is something most tennis players can only dream about. Most players, if they're lucky, have one attribute that stands out
either a monster serve, great footspeed, superb touch, superior timing or innate feel for the ball.

Dave McPherson

#35. It's just that [the Hawks have made] a lot of changes. A lot of their great players have moved on. They have a lot of new faces and a lot of young guys who are going to be a part of this team for a long time. It'll take time. They've got a nice little core to start with.

Mike Modano

#36. I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don't think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages.

Heather O'Reilly

#37. Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.

Dean Wareham

#38. Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.

Diplo

#39. I'd do a demo recording by myself, layering instruments on top of one another, and while that's fun, it doesn't have the same impact as getting some great players together in a great studio with a great engineer and producer, then waiting for the magic.

Bernie Leadon

#40. Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

Pat Riley

#41. I'm following the players, and it's great. We've never had so many Top 10 big players like now. There's so many out there that are very close.

Gabriela Sabatini

#42. The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet

Kevin Keegan

#43. Being a part of the finesse and physicality of box lacrosse has been a great experience for me. I feel that I have learned and improved as an overall lacrosse player. Learning to adapt in tight space while reading defenders and offensive players has been the biggest improvement in my game.

Paul Rabil

#44. Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

Frank Woolley

#45. The great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. But there are conductors that actually inhibit the players from playing with each other properly.

Joshua Bell

#46. I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the Series.

Rickey Henderson

#47. Scholesy is one of my favourite players of all time. He was a great professional who had everything and I used to love playing with him. You could give him the ball in any position, he would take one touch and you would know exactly what the next move would be. [ ... ] He was magical, pure class.

Paul Gascoigne

#48. 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.

Arsene Wenger

#49. I'm at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don't freak out ... I don't think we can call it a rivalry yet. There's just to many great players around.

Roger Federer

#50. I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

Brad Gilbert

#51. Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.

Johan Cruijff

#52. I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.

George Best

#53. I take a lot of favorite moves from great players and add them to my repertoire.

Vince Carter

#54. We've seen a lot of average college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into terrible NFL players.

Richard Sherman

#55. When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.

Tiger Woods

#56. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

Bill Bruford

#57. Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!

Yasser Seirawan

#58. 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

#59. The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

Coeur De Pirate

#60. This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#61. And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Sachin Tendulkar

#62. Real Madrid is a great club, and I will have some great players at my disposal who all want to help improve the level of the team.

Juan Ramon Lopez Caro

#63. On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable

Joe Dumars

#64. I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

Steve Alford

#65. Julius Peppers is probably 6'7 and 300 pounds. The great players spend all year round training for 16 games. It isn't fun being on the receiving end.

Matthew Stafford

#66. The thing about guitar players is we're all like a brotherhood or sisterhood. We don't care if you're great, good, bad, in between or whatever. As long as you love it, then we're all going to help each other.

Tommy Emmanuel

#67. I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

John Legend

#68. Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.

Pele

#69. I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's nothing wrong with having some great personalities and rivalries and some friction. I think that's really good for the sport.

Cristie Kerr

#70. Great teams have players who understand their responsibilities.

Bruce Brown

#71. As someone who's very competitive, I'm someone who abhors losing more than I enjoy winning. In that regard, it hasn't been a great two months, but I think our players' attitude remains pretty resolute.

Skip Prosser

#72. Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear ...

Joe Satriani

#73. The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

Mark Cuban

#74. Karch inspired his partners, his opponents and the world of volleyball players to be better than they were, to be great ... In the end, who could do more for a sport than that?

Mike Dodd

#75. I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

Brian Setzer

#76. Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players.

Tracy McGrady

#77. By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

Anatoly Karpov

#78. Every year, you try to be more consistent. It's a long year and it's tough to do. But those great players do find it. That's something that I try to do.?

Corey Perry

#79. There are a lot of great players from Europe who have never played Augusta, but all the guys in America have all played St. Andrews. They've gone over and made a trip to play St. Andrews.

Tiger Woods

#80. 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

#81. But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

Robin Yount

#82. I would like to accept this recognition on behalf of all the staff members that that I've been associated with; all of the office people behind the scenes who never get credit and make this game so great along with the great coaches and players.

Lou Lamoriello

#83. I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.

Allison Silverman

#84. I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one.

Pete Rozelle

#85. Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

Steve Sabol

#86. There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in a way that isn't ego centric. For whatever reason, musicians are just bizarrely composed humans. I think I'm living in the middle of a miracle.

Crowder

#87. In some ways the players are no different to kids as you've got to set boundaries and you've got to work within those boundaries. If you work hard and you do everything that's asked of you, there's great reward afterwards.

Warren Gatland

#88. The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.

Alex Ferguson

#89. I love humorous games. I love to laugh, and I think it's a really great way to attract players.

Kim Swift

#90. Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

Oscar Robertson

#91. So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#92. The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

Stu Grimson

#93. Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths.

Pele

#94. Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

Paul Theroux

#95. I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.

Misbah-ul-Haq

#96. While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

Dweezil Zappa

#97. My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.

Alexander Ovechkin

#98. It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

Isco

#99. I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

Dimebag Darrell

#100. Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Garry Kasparov