Top 100 Not A Player Quotes
#1. I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
Fay Vincent
#2. You shouldn't try to play games with me because I'm not a player, I'm the coach."
~ Cane
Adriana Locke
#4. I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
P.J. Harvey
#5. I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
Ellen Hopkins
#6. I'm not sure why you are playing hard to get," he breathed, his lips so close to my skin that I fought hard not to shudder. "You shouldn't try to play games with me because I'm not a player. I'm the coach.
Adriana Locke
#7. Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.
Alexander Kotov
#8. I'm not a player; I'm just a lovely guy, and I can show a girl a good time.
Douglas Booth
#9. I can go to a lot of games, but I'm not a player. I'm kind of an observer. That's why I think I do what I do in life. I just observe. That's what I find fascinating.
Howie Mandel
#10. I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
Geddy Lee
#11. If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.
Brent Weeks
#12. I am not a player to have regrets. I should have stayed at certain clubs longer, but I don't regret.
Kevin Kilbane
#13. I'm not a player, I'm an alien ... My focus is on winning championships. I don't focus on anything else. Aliens only want to win championships.
Metta World Peace
#14. I'm not a player! I'm the girlfriend type! I always have girlfriends.
Kevin Connolly
#16. There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.
David Bronstein
#17. Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
Jonny Greenwood
#18. Not just me but every professional footballer will tell you they miss playing the game, I miss the game especially as I retired early, not because I was a bad player but I retired solely for health reasons.
Fabrice Muamba
#19. I'm a veteran, and I've earned the right to be heard. I'll lead by example and show that gay players are no different from straight ones. I'm not the loudest person in the room, but I'll speak up when something isn't right. And try to make everyone laugh.
Jason Collins
#20. Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
Johan Cruijff
#21. Football is what you do, but it's not who you are. It's a big part of who you are. Part of who you are is you're a football player. It's your profession. It's a game you love to play. It's a game I love to play.
Andrew Luck
#22. You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#23. Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.
Warren Buffett
#24. This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called 'Gurgeh'. The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game. Me? I'll tell you about me later. This is how the story begins.
Anonymous
#25. 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
#26. That is NOT the arse of a £7million player!
Eamon Dunphy
#27. It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.
Efim Geller
#28. As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
Boz Scaggs
#29. Bridget did not budge, and her face was without expression. She sat, quietly defeated like a chess player who lost a career match in less than four moves.
Emmie White
#30. Not everything you're going to do in volleyball - or in life, for that matter - is exciting or fully functional, but if you have the willpower to make each minute count, you'll benefit in some way. And it will make you a better player and a better person in the long run.
Karch Kiraly
#31. I just take what comes to me. If the drive is there, Im going to take it. If its not there, Ill take a pull-up shot. Im a confident player down the stretch and I feel like I can make the play when I have to.
Paul Pierce
#32. The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.
Robert Manne
#33. So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games
Geno Auriemma
#34. I'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken way, or you flop notes at the right time and you don't have to play stuff that would take seven years to learn.
Zach Condon
#35. There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.
Brad Stone
#36. When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.
Stephen King
#37. Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.
Chris Evert
#38. I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.
Hannu Rajaniemi
#39. England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.
Matt Dickinson
#40. I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.
Steven Soderbergh
#41. Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all the world was once a stage, it has now become a reality TV show: we mere players are not just aware of the camera; we mug for it.
Peggy Orenstein
#42. She longed for a man who'd be just her man, not some player who'd have a bunch of other women on the side. She wanted a man who'd work, not some jerk who was always getting fired because his job description was smaller than his ego. Someone reliable and solid, like her Grandpa Earl had been.
Eden Connor
#43. There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.
Mark McGwire
#44. I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game.
Tim Tebow
#45. I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.
Matthew Perry
#46. I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee.
Doug Stanhope
#47. A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.
Steve Weinstein
#48. I hope I haven't maxed out, because I'm not satisfied. I hope I can be a better ball player, and I hope I'm on my way.
Scott Rolen
#49. Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening
Mikhail Tal
#50. We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
#51. I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.
Kevin Durant
#52. A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.
Boris Gelfand
#53. Jiu Jitsu is cognitively-complex, so much so that there is a great barrier to entry in terms of intellect. I have never met a great Jiu Jitsu player who was not highly intelligent, and I don't think I ever will.
Chris Matakas
#54. Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
Elbert Hubbard
#55. If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.
John Wooden
#56. I have an allergy to catching and throwing and kicking and dribbling of any kind. Noah is not a team player. Well, duh. Revolutionaries aren't team players.
Jandy Nelson
#57. For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.
Doug Martsch
#58. Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.
Cartier Martin
#59. It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.
Simon Sinek
#60. In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.
Mitt Romney
#61. Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz
#62. You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
Red Auerbach
#63. You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.
David Edwards
#64. A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program
players not learning.
Don Meyer
#65. But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#66. 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
#67. I also told Nick she's a player, and I'm not interested."
Becca smiled a little ruefully. "I believe that."
Hunter frowned. "What does that mean?"
"It means I've listened to her hit on every guy on the porch.I'm surprised she's not mounting Casper.
Brigid Kemmerer
#68. [The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.
Robert Altman
#69. A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.
David Bronstein
#70. The shopping is not finished and before the pre-season starts I would like to bring in another two players. I like shopping, maybe I have become a woman.
Paolo Di Canio
#71. anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser.
Douglas Preston
#72. 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
#73. When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
Hakeem Olajuwon
#74. I want people to follow their dreams, yes ... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers ... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. Cole
#75. What I'm doing is creating a game. I'm not making a movie. To make the game more enjoyable and captivating, and to make the player feel like he's present in that setting, we need the cinematic element.
Hideo Kojima
#76. I'm sorry, Hen. I still have feelings for you. It's just that my band needs a real bass player now. We're not a joke band anymore. Okay, sweetie?'
That was how Petra Dostoyevsky fired me.
Daniel Ehrenhaft
#77. It's more like winning than winning itself, and everyone knows you are not a real player until you secretly prefer losing.
Lawrence Osborne
#78. Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.
Zayn Malik
#79. It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
Arthur Ashe
#81. If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
Keith Jarrett
#82. The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.
Dikembe Mutombo
#83. The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.
Frank Zappa
#84. I feel that the All-Star game is more like a party because its made up of a lot of elements. However the core of All-Star is still the 48 minute-game and all the fans will pay all attention to the showcase of the players excellent skills. The result of the game is not much of a concern.
Yao Ming
#85. To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.
Robert Reed
#86. Status does not matter. It is what you are like as a player. It doesn't matter how much money you have come for. That doesn't matter to me. I will play a 17-year-old if he fights and he has quality. It is quite easy.
Brendan Rodgers
#87. I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish.
Mesut Ozil
#88. We do not believe in oversupplying the market. When you are a large company, you can afford to do it. When you are a small player, your flexibility gets reduced.
Lakshmi Mittal
#89. There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.
Johan Cruijff
#90. Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.
Flavor Flav
#91. He's not fit to lace my boots as a player.
(on Kevin Keegan)
George Best
#92. I don't consider myself as the best player in the world. I'm not obsessed with individual titles. I'm much more interested in being part of a team which wins trophies.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#93. That Canadian team had a bunch of guys who are in the 1 percent: Crosby, Getzlaf, Perry, Carter, Richards and Weber - guys who would win Olympic gold and make $8 and $10 million a season down the line. Though a player might be in that 1 percent, no team is, not as a group.
Patrick O'Sullivan
#94. Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#95. A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place.
Albert King
#96. At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.
Eberhard Weber
#97. Cristiano is an explosive type of player, with great technique, but he's still not as gifted as Messi in my opinion. Messi is more of a genius than Cristiano. Cristiano is so strong physically, so powerful, but Messi has more creativity.
Fabio Capello
#98. To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize ... he's that type of person.
Alex Ferguson
#99. You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.
Hank Aaron
#100. I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.
Jane Pauley
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