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. 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

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

Stephen A. Smith

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#7. 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

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

Luis Suarez

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

Kobe Bryant

#10. 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

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

Graeme Souness

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Tom Izzo

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

Bernd Schuster

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

Pat Riley

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

Kevin Keegan

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

Frank Woolley

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

Rickey Henderson

#25. 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

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

Johan Cruijff

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

Vince Carter

#28. 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

#29. 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.

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

John Wooden

#46. The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

Hamilton Leithauser

#47. Some great players, like Ted Williams and Stan Musial, had one more great hitting season left around the age of 40.

George Vecsey

#48. I've always been a big fan of Thierry Henry. I enjoy watching all the great players, really. But we're always drawn to some players more than others, and in my case, it's Titi. He's my favourite player. I also really liked Luis Figo when he was at Real Madrid.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#49. I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves
and that is the real risk.

Steve Young

#50. A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.

Ringo Starr

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

Arnold Palmer

#52. I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout.

Colin Cooper

#53. Critics have always questioned whether players like Pele from the 50s could play today. Lionel Messi could play in the 1950s and the present day, as could Di Stefano, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff because they are all great players. Lionel Messi without question fits into that category.

Alex Ferguson

#54. For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.

Shaquille O'Neal

#55. I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

John McEnroe

#56. A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential for great programming teams, too.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#57. Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky

#58. I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time.

Drew Bledsoe

#59. Ian Callaghan is everything good that a man can be. No praise is too high for him. Words cannot do justice to the amount he has contributed to the game. Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game's truly great players.

Bill Shankly

#60. The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Pete Sampras

#61. I'm more of an actor than a musician. I've made a little name for myself as an actor, but I also front this band. We have some great players out here, and we've found a little niche with L.A. Hootenanny.

Todd Lowe

#62. I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do

Jimmy Greaves

#63. Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

Marv Levy

#64. I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

Dolph Schayes

#65. To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.

David Beckham

#66. Great players inspire you. The best player I played with was Gervi (Gervinho)

Eden Hazard

#67. I think Liverpool have a long history with many great players. I hope one day to be up there with those great players. I'll try my best to write some history here.

Luis Suarez

#68. 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

#69. You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

Scott Brooks

#70. When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

John Madden

#71. Great players make great plays.

Joe Theismann

#72. It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.

Joshua Redman

#73. The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

Jermain Defoe

#74. On paper we might be the best team in the league. We've got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn't put it together.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#75. I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.

Steve Nash

#76. The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

Jerry Tarkanian

#77. In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

Lindsay Davenport

#78. They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.

Rafael Palmeiro

#79. Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

Michael Jordan

#80. I have great players around me. I have a great coach talking to me all the time, constantly teaching me. I feel reborn, like I'm learning every day. When I show up, I'm happy.

Tyson Chandler

#81. I've got guys in my band that have been there for about 35 years. They're great players, and we still enjoy doing the music.

Lynn Anderson

#82. Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.

Les Miles

#83. When I played with Michael Jordan on the Olympic team, there was a huge gap between his ability and the ability of the other great players on that team. But what impressed me was that he was always the first one on the floor and the last one to leave.

Steve Alford

#84. I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.

Tony La Russa

#85. I have played with some great players during my time at United but I would have to put Paul Scholes down as the best.

Ryan Giggs

#86. There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.

Lee Ann Womack

#87. We've had some great players at this club in my 20 years, but he's up with the best.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#88. I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#89. Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players.

Garry Kasparov

#90. I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.

Facundo Pieres

#91. It's just fun to go out and compete. It doesn't matter what your record is or what the other team's record is. You're playing in an NFL game, and you are out there competing with great players.

Jamie Martin

#92. None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#93. I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years ... I only had four or five good years.

Sandy Koufax

#94. I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi.

Paul Scholes

#95. Milan is my favorite team. Every weekend I check the Serie A results to see how Milan fared. Milan has really great players, like Seedorf, Ibra, Pato and Thiago Silva. Then there is Nesta who is a great champion, it's enough just to look at his career.

Mamadou Sakho

#96. Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them

Mia Hamm

#97. Tom Watson, Tom Watson blew, what, two PGA Championships and a U.S. Open. Did it destroy his life? No, it didn't destroy his life. He learned from it. He went on to win a lot of major championships and obviously became one of the world's great players.

Jack Nicklaus

#98. You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

Nick Johnson

#99. The best player ever? Pele. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better.

Osvaldo Ardiles

#100. I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

Ernie Harwell