Top 100 Quotes About Players
#1. Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near.
Jim Bouton
#2. The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.
Agnieszka Holland
#3. I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.
Oliver Kahn
#4. I don't blame the players, I don't blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.
Tony DiCicco
#5. My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.
Arnold Palmer
#6. In a way, if you are the data-driven marketing business owner, your position is similar to the owner of a football team. You don't get to train the players or call the plays, you just get to pay the bills but really need results to sell tickets and keep the stadium full.
Mark Jeffery
#7. A lot of times, guys are just out there playing and they'll just go and get you. I don't really think they're thinking about the helmet-to-helmet contact. You'll probably see a lot of players more hesitant before they make their hits.
Andre Johnson
#8. I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.
Will McDonough
#9. I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.
Monte Irvin
#10. We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.
Michel Patini
#11. Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.
Clarence Clemons
#12. We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.
Joe Dumars
#13. I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
Johan Cruyff
#14. It is my goal to win every time I play. But on the other hand, I also seek a balance of compassion and respect for the other players. I understand that everyone goes through difficult times, either mentally or physically, to cope with their life, to live the sport.
Novak Djokovic
#15. When you will have to search for long to collect other nine players to organize your usual five-a-side football match..you will realize to be old ...
Gaetano De Coubertin
#16. You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.
Tony Dorsett
#17. Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't know where he was when he got there. He lost two-thirds of his ships along the way. And he did it with someone else's money.
Matt Bahr
#18. When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.
Z'EV
#19. The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.
Terry Bradshaw
#20. From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans.
Efim Geller
#21. Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and the Gap and the Old Man, railing about newfangled players and spicy food. Bringing me face-to-face early with death and old age and change.
Connie Willis
#22. You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.
Bill McCartney
#23. We are looking to get counties to play their young England players earlier, and the first reports from the counties are that it is working well. It also helps us to prepare in a better fashion.
Andy Pick
#24. We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
Sam Wood
#25. You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#26. You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play.
Henry Tamburin
#28. Nobody likes being criticised, particularly by players who will be in Disneyland this summer on their holidays rather than the World Cup in Japan
Phil Thompson
#29. Players prefer the FA Cup because it's the end of season curtain-raiser.
Peter Withe
#30. They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
Ted Lindsay
#31. It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.
Sepp Blatter
#32. The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good.
Landon Donovan
#33. There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.
Jermain Defoe
#34. Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are.
Simone Elkeles
#35. I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to.
Jennifer Wyatt
#36. In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.
Janet Echelman
#37. I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
Darrell Royal
#38. I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.
Amelie Mauresmo
#39. When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus.
Luis Suarez
#40. This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.
Javier Clemente
#41. In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Vladimir Kramnik
#42. Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
Jennie Finch
#43. I move very well. Being able to go at different types of players, that's where I have an advantage.
LaMarcus Aldridge
#44. Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.
Earl Weaver
#45. I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.
Arnold Palmer
#47. It's the one thing that the Devils have always prided themselves on. That comes from recruiting. We try and pick out the players who not only have the on-ice skills, but the off-ice skills too. I think in any job, if you have good people and you work together, you work better.
Gerad Adams
#48. Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one another from play ... Role games ... bring players together in a mutual effort ...
Gary Gygax
#49. India buzzes for its players and that makes you feel special.
Kevin Pietersen
#50. The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.
Frosty Westering
#51. Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates
Don Meyer
#52. German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.
Franz Beckenbauer
#53. Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
Gerry Mulligan
#54. The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.
Helen Wills Moody
#55. Thunder only happens when it's raining. Players only love you when they're playing.
Jennifer Jabaley
#56. If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.
Jose Mourinho
#57. I wanted to prove people wrong who didn't think I could play at this level. I also wanted to take care of my family. It was a chance to play against the best players in the world. Mentally and physically I don't think I was ready, but I was ready to take on the challenge.
Jermaine O'Neal
#58. I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.
Patrick Kane
#59. The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.
Lawrence Taylor
#60. Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight
Jose Raul Capablanca
#61. Good players want to be coached ... Great players want to be told the truth
Doc Rivers
#62. Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than I knew how to play. I hope the same thing is true with acting.
Alan Arkin
#63. 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
#64. Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke bankers with wads of cash to grant more funds to such trifling matters as the avoidance of space bullets, so they won't give NASA the money
Robert Brockway
#65. I think my father is probably the best coach ever because if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.
Serena Williams
#66. Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.
Richard Reti
#67. You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
Pat Riley
#68. I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.
Laila Ali
#69. It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
Cal Hubbard
#70. The people I still talk to are some of the old Galaxy players all over the place. That's a bond that's pretty special.
Cobi Jones
#71. I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done.
Barack Obama
#72. There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.
Michelle Wie
#73. The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
Ian Anderson
#74. First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
#75. I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
Zinedine Zidane
#76. Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players ... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Arsene Wenger
#77. They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
Carl Hubbell
#78. It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
Sammy Hagar
#79. When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.
John C. Maxwell
#80. If you lose, it's the coach's fault and if you win, the players are credible, they are indispensable, so whatever happens it's going to be the coach.
Stephen Keshi
#81. I can hit Shahid Afridi six sixes in an over but i know when he is going to hit 6 sixes in my over then the response of the crowd is something different. He is among top 5 dangerous players in current Cricket. I place my self at 6
Chris Gayle
#82. If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.
Bill Veeck
#83. 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
#84. It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.
Mark Teixeira
#85. When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
Red Barber
#86. Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.
Tom Seaver
#87. I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
John Wooden
#88. The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very excessive and unrealistic demand.
Paul Tagliabue
#89. We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.
Steve Spurrier
#90. More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.
Jeffrey Kluger
#91. I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.'
Phil Simms
#92. I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.
John Wooden
#93. Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.
David Nalbandian
#94. It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
Wayne Rooney
#95. I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.
Pete Carril
#96. The Majors are the preachers, teachers and wisdom keepers, The Minors are your everyday highs, your lows, your woes and what grows, while the Courts are the actors, the players and the trouble makers.
Tonya Sheridan
#98. Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#99. Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.
Robert Harris
#100. I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever.
Daniela Hantuchova
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