Quotes About Being A Player

#1. Life is like a chess. The most important is being a player not a figure. It doesn't matter you will win or lose.

Me

#2. Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

Wayne Gretzky

#3. I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.

Ndamukong Suh

#4. As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it ... it's a humbling experience ...

Mark Knopfler

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

Sylvain Reynard

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Bill Gates

#9. The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think ... ahh, I've heard that lick before.

Tom Verlaine

#10. I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.

Aaron Schock

#11. It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

Andy Roddick

#12. Oh, my God, I don't think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.

Roger Federer

#13. I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.

Derrick Rose

#14. What is the object of playing a gambit opening? ... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

Siegbert Tarrasch

#15. And if they tell you you're not a team player, just congratulate them on being so observant.

George Carlin

#16. 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

#17. It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

Maria Sharapova

#18. That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.

Joey Harrington

#19. Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

Casey Stengel

#20. Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it's the downside of being a star player.

George Best

#21. I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.

Justin Cole

#22. There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.

Adam Ross

#23. Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

Kenny G

#24. Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am.

LeBron James

#25. It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects. That's why I get so mad about people who are down on vocal reverb. It's not a crutch, people, it's an aesthetic choice!

Kelly Hogan

#26. One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Robert Hughes

#27. I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

William Hazlitt

#28. Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

Dennis Rodman

#29. I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

Ricky Williams

#30. I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

Eric Cantona

#31. I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

Samantha Stosur

#32. I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that's where a relationship is developed. I don't make a player, and a player doesn't make me a coach. We make each other.

Mike Krzyzewski

#33. There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don

Steve Waugh

#34. I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

Victor Cruz

#35. It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.

Frank Grillo

#36. I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.

Rebecca Lobo

#37. I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.

David Caruso

#38. Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.

Henry Rollins

#39. The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.

Gary Player

#40. In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.

Joe Greene

#41. It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.

Jaco Pastorius

#42. I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

Dakota Fanning

#43. 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

#44. Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.

Greg Norman

#45. My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man comes in with dreams and goals and ambitions and just helping him reach (them). It's like your dad watching you grow up and like me watching my boys grow.

Tubby Smith

#46. To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry.

John Lasseter

#47. 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

#48. People in general misunderstand me. I'm very aware of the stereotype that comes with being a basketball player. But I'm well-rounded. I'm cultured. It's funny: When I speak, people are like, "Wow! You can really talk." I'm like, "What did you expect?"

Chris Bosh

#49. Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.

Pat Riley

#50. You know, I started this process of being a football player and I'm going to make it to the NFL very soon and I plan on finishing that. And by 'finishing that,' I mean that I'm going to go out and be the best that I can be and put everything forth to make that happen.

Robert Griffin III

#51. I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.

Glenn Hoddle

#52. I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no.

Al Leiter

#53. We have a lot of fun every year, and I really enjoy being part of junior golf and the development of these players.

Tiger Woods

#54. I know some players like being the centre of attention and I admit that when I first became a player I liked fame, too. But that feeling lasted only for three months. Then I realised what it was really like to be the centre of attention all the time. It isn't all good.

Mario Balotelli

#55. Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

Tim Page

#56. 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.

#57. At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It's like being a male ballerina in a way. It's not the norm.

Orianthi

#58. I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

Red Schoendienst

#59. Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.

Nerlens Noel

#60. To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Anatoly Karpov

#61. The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

Ricky Williams

#62. A real player is somebody who never gives up, who keeps thinking all the way through, who's scared, (darn) right, but plays through being scared.

Ralph Wiley

#63. I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

Herschel Walker

#64. Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

Hermann Hesse

#65. I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

David Duchovny

#66. Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.

Vince Gill

#67. A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip ...

Henry Garza

#68. The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

Jay Leno

#69. I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.

Peter King

#70. Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

Taufik Hidayat

#71. I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
was the best all-around player. Joe
was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

Willie Mays

#72. I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.

Paul Weller

#73. I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality.

Tanc Sade

#74. What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#75. If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

John Madden

#76. Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see ... be your son.

Harmon Killebrew

#77. I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.

Pete Rose

#78. The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.

Rory McIlroy

#79. At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.

Oleg Cassini

#80. I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

Ndamukong Suh

#81. Organisations are innovating quicker than ever. Your members need to excel from being a team player to a team builder.

Janna Cachola

#82. How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

Jason Giambi

#83. Part of my identity for as long as I can remember is being a baseball player. If I'm not that anymore, then who am I?"
"Who do you want to be?"
"Harry Potter

J. Sterling

#84. I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

Joe Namath

#85. If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

Danny Masterson

#86. That's like being a hockey player born on January I.

Malcolm Gladwell

#87. I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Ian Anderson

#88. It is nice to have the fans recognize you, not because it makes you feel like a big-time player, but because they enjoy watching baseball and they like watching us play. It's going to get even better being here. Pretty soon, the city could be one of the best places to play.

Ryan Zimmerman

#89. My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.

Jason Kidd

#90. I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.

Siouxsie Sioux

#91. Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

Alexandra Robbins

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

Dennis Rodman

#93. I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

Roger Federer

#94. After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

Ornette Coleman

#95. If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

Jim Courier

#96. Turkey in general became too involved with what is happening in Egypt and in Syria. Some politicians with neo-Ottoman dreams developed this idea of being a major player in the Middle East, which hasn't gone as expected.

Elif Safak

#97. There's a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don't want to have that much of a character because then it destroys the experience of the player being that character.

David S.Goyer

#98. Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.

Sunil Gavaskar

#99. I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father.

Terry Crews

#100. If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Isaiah Thomas