Top 100 The Best Player Quotes
#1. I'm a point guard, I've always been a point guard, I've played point guard all my life. Personally, I feel the best point guards make other players look better and create their own shot. I fit in that category.
Chauncey Billups
#2. People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
#3. If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.
Derrek Lee
#4. I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it ... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.
Tony Gwynn
#5. When I see Messi - who is the best player in the world in my opinion - lose the ball, he runs off until he gets it back or commits a foul. Our guys lose the ball and fold their arms.
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
#6. For skills and tricks, Ronaldinho was the best player I've played with.
Edgar Davids
#7. I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there. Absolutely astounding.
Alex Ferguson
#8. In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
Norm MacDonald
#9. I don't really have a 'favorite' person to play with. I like to play with the player that is playing the best, but it doesn't always work out that way.
Paula Creamer
#10. I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.
Ronaldinho
#11. It is good to be Compared with the best player [Pele]. But my dad told me about Garrincha's style as he moved forward, went up, attacked and dribbled. Garrincha's style is more similar to Neymar's.
Neymar
#12. As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.
Stan Albeck
#13. All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class
Zinedine Zidane
#14. My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.
Larry Bird
#15. It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.
George Vecsey
#16. I am nervous about this game. The Cowboys' best player, quarterback Tony Romo, is not going to play because he has a broken finger. The Cowboys ought to be able to win without Tony Romo because the St. Louis Rams are terrible, but I am still nervous.
Craig Lancaster
#17. Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.
Kelvin Sampson
#18. Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field
Andriy Shevchenko
#19. Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have the gentle side of Coltrane or Brubeck on the CD player. It creates sort of a spiritual space in which I write best.
Miller Williams
#20. To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.
LeBron James
#21. I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. When I'm performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
Billie Jean King
#22. A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared
Jack Ramsay
#23. The best player EVER (Leo Messi) without a shadow, if you didn't think/know already ...
Robbie Fowler
#24. In the ruling, Justice Roberts, who wrote the decision, referred to cell phones as not just phones but, quote, "cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, and diaries," unquote. Plus, he went on, best friends, lovers ...
Peter Sagal
#25. All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.
Harvey Penick
#26. Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.
Rick Pitino
#27. Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#28. I don't ever want it to be a question whether I'm a Pro Bowl-caliber player, I believe I'm the best at what I do, and it's my responsibility to play like I'm capable of playing and help this defense as much as possible.
Derrick Thomas
#29. CR7 is the best player in the world, we're lucky to train with him every day and to have him with us
Sergio Ramos
#30. All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.
Tobin Bell
#31. The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
Macklemore
#32. Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game.
Gary Neville
#33. Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.
Johan Cruijff
#34. Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time ... If he keeps developing and matures ? goodness knows what he will become. At the moment he's a breathe of fresh air.
(on Wayne Rooney)
Alex Ferguson
#35. For best results, the competitive player should never depart from his area of expertise
John Train
#36. Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.
Jose Canseco
#37. Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning
Jeff Van Gundy
#38. The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed down the feel of winning, of being the absolute best, which isn't equal to any other team.
Gianluigi Buffon
#39. I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.
Julius Peppers
#40. I'm a really smart player. If you tell me something, I get it quickly. If there is something wrong with my hitting, tell me what's wrong and I'll pick it up right away. That's the best thing I have going for me, my ability to listen to a coach and fix what I'm doing wrong.
Albert Pujols
#41. When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners
George Karl
#42. People always lean toward who's the best guitar player, who's the best singer? I don't see it that way. They're all the best, you know? They've all gotten your attention, you've admired them, you've tried to sing like them. That makes them the best, each and every one of 'em.
Gregg Allman
#43. The best thing I've ever heard another player say is, 'I hate playing against you.'
Logan Mankins
#44. 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
#45. Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play.
Alessandro Del Piero
#46. I want to help Manchester United win the Premier League and become the best player in the world.
Adnan
#48. I want to be one of the best players in the game.
Kevin Durant
#49. Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.
Adriano Galliani
#50. I know how well I can play. I don't mention myself with the other players. I mention myself with the best.
Jaromir Jagr
#51. You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.
James Mangold
#52. I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#53. You could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.
Jim Brown
#54. I know what I need to work on; I know my weaknesses, but I have that work ethic to improve every day. I have that want to be the best player at my position, and I have the belief in myself that one day that will come true.
Justin Tuck
#55. 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
#56. I still believe I'm the best player. That's what keeps me going.
Lisa Leslie
#57. Here are some of the best Minecraft jokes for kids. Player 1: If creepers would actually invade my house in real life, I would throw them some nuts and bolts. Player 2: That's really lame. Why would you do that? Player 1: Because I'm sssssssscrewed!
Max Tyler
#58. I think Messi is the best forward in the world. It is very difficult to play against him. But he is not only a forward, he is moving everywhere. He is a very good player.
Nemanja Vidic
#59. Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player.
Paul Pierce
#60. I don't work this hard just to be the best player. I do it to win.
Holly McPeak
#61. They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player.
Seve Ballesteros
#62. Brandon Rush is not just one of the best freshmen in the league, he's one of the best players.
Kelvin Sampson
#63. My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.
Luis Suarez
#64. You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.
Jason Spezza
#65. 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
#66. If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
Dan Marino
#67. The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players
Jack Ramsay
#68. There's a few ugly ones. Carlo is probably the best looking [on chelsea players]
Frank Lampard
#69. I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies.
Scott Weiland
#70. I believe in my heart I'm the best player in the world. I'm just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I'm just confident in my ability to play ball.
Allen Iverson
#71. Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.
Doug Harvey
#72. The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.
John Wooden
#73. I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
Willie Mays
#74. On paper we might be the best team in the league. We've got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn't put it together.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#75. I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it
Bobby Fischer
#77. The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup.
Paul Azinger
#78. Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special.
Wilt Chamberlain
#79. Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.
Ahmed H. Zewail
#80. Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.
Andre Agassi
#81. What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.
Mickey Hart
#82. In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
Julius Erving
#83. Gareth Bale has been levitated to the status of one of the best players in the world
Perry Groves
#84. Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.
Jack Welch
#85. I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
Zinedine Zidane
#86. Paul Scholes. The best! Great player, person, friend!
Gary Neville
#87. I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#88. I have the possibility to watch Messi in training each morning, and because of what he demonstrates he is the best player in the world, he stated during a press conference. It is a pleasure to watch him, and because of the way he plays he is an undisputed leader of the Barcelona team.
Thierry Henry
#89. If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be ... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.
Tim Tebow
#90. So, the Phoenix Suns are wearing jerseys written in Spanish, made in China, modeled after their best player, Canadian Steve Nash. There you go. That is America.
Jay Leno
#91. I firmly believe in a hybrid future where old media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy), and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism).
Arianna Huffington
#92. Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there's a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.
Elon Musk
#93. The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
Edgar Allan Poe
#94. I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.
Daniela Hantuchova
#95. 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
#96. Lord Bendtner is the best player of all times
Barack Obama
#97. 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
#98. He is an exceptional talent. I still think Diego Maradona is the best player I have ever seen but Messi is closing in fast. He's a wonderful sight in full flight and we are lucky to have him around.
Ander Herrera
#99. With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
Ice Cube
#100. Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.
Eric Bristow
