Player Quotes

#1. Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

#2. I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.

George Thorogood

#3. I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

Reggie Jackson

#4. The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.

Bill Anderson

#5. Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen.

Bobby Moore

#6. A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.

Ndamukong Suh

#7. And I didn't fall in love with the game of basketball just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it Because I got guys like this, Like these guys every single day That push me to be the best player I can be.

Kevin Durant

#8. Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

Branch Rickey

#9. No player can represent Sri Lanka in future without good fitness levels

Sanath Jayasuriya

#10. No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not only that I get justice, but that players' contracts and rights are protected through the next round of bargaining.

Alex Rodriguez

#11. The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.

Stephen Richards

#12. I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

David Crosby

#13. AB de Villers is the most complete player of the Modern Era

V. V. S. Laxman

#14. I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was.
(on Manchester City)

Alex Ferguson

#15. As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

Jonathan Ames

#16. 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

#17. I have been on TV quite a few times as a poker player.

Jerry Buss

#18. of course play with others life if you are good player
But once you have to think How your reaction if your children meet with same player like you ?
is it make you happy ? then continue

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#19. I am always honest, and I am not the sort of player to say, 'Oh, I love Arsenal' and then sign for someone else. I think if I was unhappy, I would say that, but I'm not. I do love Arsenal.

Thierry Henry

#20. Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

Larry Bird

#21. What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

Bill Russell

#22. Rafe didn't just flirt-he charmed girls right up to the point where they fell for him, then he changed his mind.I called him a player with attention deficit disorder.

Kelley Armstrong

#23. For me, Marouane Fellaini has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League over the last few seasons. If he continues to improve at United, we'll have a really good player on our hands.

David Moyes

#24. I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

Lia Ices

#25. Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better.

Henrik Larsson

#26. If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.

Chris Moneymaker

#27. For most developers, that kind of situation - a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend - to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.

Warren Spector

#28. If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in that, feel a little more as if I come from someplace in particular.

Robert Pinsky

#29. Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.

Helen Wills Moody

#30. Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

Evelyn Waugh

#31. Every football player knows when his time is up.

Red Grange

#32. Lord Bendtner is the best player of all times

Barack Obama

#33. I was never much of a bass player.

Ryan Adams

#34. I definitely think with a lot of hard work, I can be a better player than I was last year, and hopefully, continue to raise the bar every year.

Evan Longoria

#35. People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

Reggie White

#36. Being a professional wrestler was never one of my goals in life. I always wanted to be some kind of entertainer. I used to want to be a rock singer or a guitar player but I can't sing and I can't play the guitar.

Ric Savage

#37. I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

Ryne Sandberg

#38. Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.

Safra A. Catz

#39. As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

Jerry West

#40. I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

Daymond John

#41. Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

Tony Robbins

#42. Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day.

Peter Uihlein

#43. I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield.

Derek Jeter

#44. This will be my first Grand Slam final without Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic on the other side of the net, but I don't think being the more experienced player will make much difference to my approach.

Andy Murray

#45. If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

Vin Scully

#46. I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.

Norm Sloan

#47. If you're a skilled player, you want to use your skill, not just hit the puck.

Gabe Polsky

#48. First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

Bill Frisell

#49. When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.

Rod Carew

#50. The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

David Mamet

#51. Who wasn't squatting in one of the handful of prefabricated subject positions proffered by capital or whatever you wanted to call it, lying every time she said "I"; who wasn't a bit player in a looped infomercial for the damaged life?

Ben Lerner

#52. It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world.

Klay Thompson

#53. We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.

Pat Gillick

#54. Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.

Russell Westbrook

#55. And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.

Craig Johnston

#56. A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

Pete Gill

#57. When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale before. Even for our drummer and bass player it was their first really big band.

Wednesday 13

#58. Messi or Ronaldo? I prefer Messi because he is more of a street player.

Vicente Del Bosque

#59. I don't remember those early playoff games. Keep it positive. I'm a different player. More focused. I know how important it is to score in the playoffs.

Pavel Datsyuk

#60. At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

Mats Sundin

#61. Rafa being 6-1 against Roger is not a source of pride for me. I'm happy that Rafa won the tournament, but I would have liked that Federer could have won the Grand Slam, because I think he's a phenomenal player. For me, he is the player I enjoy watching the most.

Toni Nadal

#62. You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!

Israelmore Ayivor

#63. I was not a very good football player when I started out.

Lynn Swann

#64. the music player.

Jeff Hobbs

#65. His voice ripped through her, low, soft, and a little husky- like the hushed crackling of an old fashioned record player just before the music starts

Kelly Creagh

#66. When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team.
(on Manchester United)

Gary Neville

#67. I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.

Viswanathan Anand

#68. For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.

Simeon Rice

#69. Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.

Bill Walton

#70. You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

Suzanne Farrell

#71. It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team.

Rudolph Straeuli

#72. My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very, very good guitar player, but it's like he's trying to hide it. I always loved this attitude. When you're very good ... it's like being an athlete - and I always hated sports!

Laurent Brancowitz

#73. Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign ... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.

Ted Bell

#74. Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

Retief Goosen

#75. There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

Edgar Allan Poe

#76. I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

Alan Ritchson

#77. Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

Alexander Kotov

#78. My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

B.B. King

#79. If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

Ricky Williams

#80. The scrape of the skates on the ice. The smell of musty old equipment. The black puck stains on the boards. To the uninitiated they're nothing, but to a hockey player they're home.

Jeff Lemire

#81. I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

John Amaechi

#82. He's a player you only miss when he's not playing

Graham Taylor

#83. I didn't want to be cut, but it made me a better person and a better player.

Jason Spezza

#84. I don't know of a guitar player that has only one guitar. They're never happy with one. I'm never happy with just one of them. I woke up and ended up with six, even if you can only play one at a time!

Les Paul

#85. There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

Jake Shimabukuro

#86. Paolo Maldini is neither a legend nor a world class player!

Carlton Palmer

#87. I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself.

Joe Kinnear

#88. People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that.

Trent Reznor

#89. The best player I've ever played against is Kobe Bryant. I have seen him do some stuff that is just unbelievable.

Dirk Nowitzki

#90. You're going to be a great player, kid.

Jackie Robinson

#91. Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?"
Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it started. Why would he ever do such a thing? At last he said, "Perhaps because he doubted himself.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#92. I am proud of my heritage and have happily taken advantage of every opportunity to educate my teammates and Steeler Nation about American Samoa, both as a player and in the community, through the Troy and Theodora Polamalu Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.

Troy Polamalu

#93. There's a tacit understanding among clubs that a good player shouldn't miss out on the big break of his career or a chance at exponentially improved earnings.

Tim Howard

#94. If it happens that I score 50 goals, it'll be awesome. Any player in the league would like 50. But I don't keep thinking every day that I have to score in order to reach 50 goals .

Zach Parise

#95. I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area.

Mario Balotelli

#96. Jordan Henderson is a player who likes to do his business in the middle of the park

Jason McAteer

#97. I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

Gary Cooper

#98. I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.

Paul Pierce

#99. The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make.

Booker T. Jones

#100. I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.

Jim Caviezel