Quotes About A Player

#1. Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much!

Jim Carrey

#2. I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.

Bobby Cox

#3. I'm really interested in being a player. I'm not pursuing TV at all. If TV pursues me, that's different. I don't even want to entertain it. I think that helps me as a player.

Paul Azinger

#4. I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me.

Dennis Bergkamp

#5. Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

Anson Dorrance

#6. He is a gentleman!

[He's a player.]

Ellen Hopkins

#7. When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

Larry Bird

#8. The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.

Vince Lombardi

#9. I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.

John Petrucci

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me.

Jeff Cunningham

#13. 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

#14. I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines.

Paul Brown

#15. If I haven't played with a player before and I don't know anything about them, the more they tell me about themselves, the better I will be able to judge how they think and how they play.

Daniel Negreanu

#16. I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.

Fergie

#17. I thank God for all the victories and conquests I've had this year as a player and I bring to the altar two prizes. This is first my son who is about to be born. The other is my trophy from Fifa, which I want to dedicate to God.

Kaka

#18. When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

Joe Torre

#19. Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies.

Ridley Scott

#20. Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

Emanuel Lasker

#21. Good things happen to a team when a player takes the place where he adds the most value. Great things happen when all the players on the team take the role that maximizes their strengths - their talent, skill, and experience.

John C. Maxwell

#22. YOU KNOW AS A PLAYER THAT YOU WON'T HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO PLAY IN WORLD CUPS - SO YOU HAVE TO TAKE THEM WHEN YOU CAN.

Lionel Messi

#23. I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

Don Baylor

#24. My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

Mose Allison

#25. I was a conservative kid, but I had fun. I was in a fraternity and stuff. I wasn't a player - that's for sure.

Matt Long

#26. At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

Bill Walton

#27. Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

Franz Beckenbauer

#28. All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Lou Holtz

#29. Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.

Emmitt Smith

#30. When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

Doug Harvey

#31. It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.

Slash

#32. ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.

Tom Brokaw

#33. I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.

Lou Holtz

#34. There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal.

Mike Babcock

#35. Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.

John Kessel

#36. I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

Dean Smith

#37. I swear I have never told a player to attack another player. In fact, I have told my players if they ever hear me saying something like this, they can break a stick over my skull. I ask only that they play aggressively.

Fred Shero

#38. He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

Glenn Hoddle

#39. A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.

Bob McNair

#40. The Savior was no ivory-tower observer, no behind-the-lines captain ... The Savior was a participant, a player, who not only understood our plight intellectually, but who felt our wounds because they became his wounds.

Tad R. Callister

#41. Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

Alexander Alekhine

#42. Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

Dusty Baker

#43. Frank Martin is a rarity. Dexterous as a player, writer and singer, he is thoughtful and skilled in his approach and passionate in his delivery. He is a unique, first-class musical personality.

Tom Kimmel

#44. My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works.

Steve Nash

#45. He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

Alex Ferguson

#46. To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

Holly Johnson

#47. I'm not a mean player. You'll notice I never pick on a player who has a number above 30.

Mike Ditka

#48. I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

Tony Levin

#49. In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.

Xavi

#50. One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

Lydia Ko

#51. If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.

Dan Jenkins

#52. I don't want a player that's content with not playing ... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

Don Shula

#53. I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.

Alex Ferguson

#54. I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality.

Stuart Appleby

#55. I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

Jim Leyland

#56. I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.

Dave Barry

#57. AB de Villiers reminds me of my young days, What a Player!

Chris Gayle

#58. She stabbed him with her wicked pretty knife, disrupted his simple life.
She's a player, a heartbreaker,
and now she breaks alone.

Coco J. Ginger

#59. Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

Mario Lemieux

#60. All I wanted to be was a player.

Franco Harris

#61. People love a player with ideas, because at the end of the day, the crowd want to be entertained. And with football being only a game, it has to be enjoyable too.

Ernst Happel

#62. Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.

Kevin Garnett

#63. I've always been a player and a person who wanted to be the best at whatever he did.

Eli Manning

#64. Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.

Pat Summerall

#65. After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.

Angie Martinez

#66. I never drop a player I only make changes.

Bill Shankly

#67. He's 33 for God's sake - being a player isn't cute anymore.

Sylvain Reynard

#68. A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

Dennis Rodman

#69. A.J. Bryant is a player waiting to happen. If he gets a little confidence going and a couple of catches, he can really do some big things for us.

Mark Richt

#70. Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

Viktor Korchnoi

#71. I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Bear Bryant

#72. If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.

Frederick Lenz

#73. A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

John Wooden

#74. 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

#75. Well then, maybe you should also be aware of the fact that I know you have a reputation as a player and I know a lot of other people know that. If any woman tries to cut into my action, I'm taking her down.

Kristen Ashley

#76. I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now ... I've grown as a player and as a man.

Josh Howard

#77. The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

Andrew Bogut

#78. It was like some great big spring was tugging at him - and maybe,perhaps sooner rather than later, a boy has to decide what kind of man he is going to be. Is he going to be a player,or a playing piece ... ?

Terry Pratchett

#79. I take his talent and his passion with me - to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, into my own living room. I am the realization of my grandfather's dream. I am a player.

Brad Paisley

#80. A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#81. Obviously on a basic level, unlike other media, if a player does not control the game, there is no experience.

Matthew Wysocki

#82. When you've got a player who does what he does at that pace this late in the game than you know you've got an invaluable talent.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#83. One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.

Vin Scully

#84. You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

Arsene Wenger

#85. The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Sparky Anderson

#86. I'm not nearly as much of a fan of the NBA as I was maybe 10 or 15 years ago, or certainly as I was when I was a player. It's become more entertainment focused, and less focused on the purity of the game.

Len Elmore

#87. Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art.

Peter Storey

#88. When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.

Jerry Weintraub

#89. Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.

Lloyd Mangrum

#90. I'm not a player; I'm just a lovely guy, and I can show a girl a good time.

Douglas Booth

#91. I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.

Jerry West

#92. NBA has a selfish rationale. It saves the owners money by delaying the time a player gets to a second, more lucrative contract. Even the player's union is on board. There are only 450 jobs in the NBA, and the one-and-done protects veterans' jobs.

Sonny Vaccaro

#93. At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough ... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

Michel Patini

#94. I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.

Bear Bryant

#95. If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

John Kessel

#96. Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player.

Paul Pierce

#97. There are always ups and downs when you lose a player the caliber of Matt Ryan.

Rich Gunnell

#98. I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

Robbie Keane

#99. I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing ... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Lou Holtz

#100. Everything that happens to you, I feel like it helps you develop as a person, as a player.

Phil Humber