The Player Quotes

#1. When they hunt, every dog knows the position of every other dog. I wanted them to understand the duality of team and player. The strength of the player is the team and the strength of the team is the player.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump.
Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.

Grace Lichtenstein

#3. The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it's artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.

Tom Bissell

#4. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

Edward FitzGerald

#5. Life is a game and you are the player. As you master the game, so you also create it.

Jay Woodman

#6. The player who looks least engaged may be the most committed member of the group. A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again.

Benjamin Zander

#7. Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.

Carlos Castaneda

#8. Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.

Helen Wills Moody

#9. 11. I am inclined to say: I 'point' in different senses to this body, to its shape, to its colour, etc.
What does that mean?
What does it mean to say I 'hear' in a different sense the piano, its sound, the piece, the player, his fluency? I 'marry', in one sense a woman, in another her money.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#10. When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.

Pete Rose

#11. 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

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

Tony Robbins

#13. 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

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

Alex Ferguson

#15. If the player has the confidence and ability, then he should sign with the pro team. Academics certainly play a large part in the decision, but if someone feels they are ready to sign, they should.

Mark Mulder

#16. 'Minecraft' opens up a world of limitless possibilities, driven by the player and created by the fans who love it.

Rob Manuel

#17. Sometimes we need to step back and understand the power of video games. 'Dear Esther' does just that. Through visuals, audio, and narration, this title weaves a story around the player as they explore different areas in the game.

Rob Manuel

#18. The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#19. Some argue that our success is short-lived and temporary. So, we now need to make efforts to constantly expand the player base by offering services and titles that can appeal, not only to those who have never played games, but also to those who play them hard.

Satoru Iwata

#20. I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

Vladimir Kramnik

#21. I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.

Harvey Penick

#22. When we'd gone to Disneyland, the tree house had been my favorite thing in the whole park. If only I'd had no parents watching my every move, if only I'd been a happy, carefree orphan, I'd have hidden under the player piano until everything closed, and then taken up residence there.

Karen Joy Fowler

#23. The goal of Football Rules & Positions In A Day For Dummies is to help you understand the basics of football rules and the player positions.

Howie Long

#24. I found an instructor, Chris O'Connell, who helped me. He turned me into the player I am today - a consistent golfer.

Matt Kuchar

#25. It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

Jonny Greenwood

#26. The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

Chris Avellone

#27. You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.

Karl Malone

#28. Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

Virender Sehwag

#29. We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

Bruce Froemming

#30. Who is the player and who's being played?

Andrew Kaplan

#31. Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

Tony Dungy

#32. OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

Craig Johnston

#33. Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.

Johan Cruijff

#34. After Luis Suarez of Uruguay bit an Italian opponent in the shoulder, two things happened. Suarez was thrown out of the rest of the tournament, and the player he bit turned Uruguayan.

Peter Sagal

#35. Hey, dont hate the player, hate the team.

Si Robertson

#36. Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

Julian Fellowes

#37. I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#38. 'Metal Gear Solid' is, for the most part, an infiltration game. You go somewhere, you execute your mission, then you go back. Those are your actions as the player.

Hideo Kojima

#39. I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.

Isaiah Thomas

#40. Design a clear and simple interface. The primary task of the interface is to present the player with a choice of the available actions at each moment and to provide instant feedback when the player makes a choice.

Jordan Mechner

#41. I can't understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he doesn't seek the limelight like some of the other 'stars'.

Thierry Henry

#42. The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.

Reggie Bush

#43. What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

Graham Nelson

#44. When we were designing Mario Kart 64, we wanted it to feel like the player is controlling an RC car ... If you play this game and get this feeling, then we will be happy because we accomplished our goal.

Hideki Konno

#45. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

Lou Holtz

#46. I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

Wes Welker

#47. The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#48. It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Brooks Robinson

#49. The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

Gary Player

#50. We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

Jean Houston

#51. I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

Mark Teixeira

#52. Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

Nick Dandolos

#53. God moves the player, he in turn the piece.
But what god beyond God begins the round
Of dust and time and sleep and agonies?

Jorge Luis Borges

#54. Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!

T.F. Hodge

#55. Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

Bobby Jones

#56. He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

Allen Iverson

#57. That's advanced capitalism for you: The player making the maximum capital investment gets the maximum critical information in order to reap the maximum desired profit with maximum capital efficiency - and nobody bats an eye.

Haruki Murakami

#58. Coaching is one thing and one thing only: It is creating an environment so the player has an opportunity to be successful That is your job as a coach. When you teach him to do that, get out of his way.

Chip Kelly

#59. When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.

Logan Mankins

#60. When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.

Pete Maravich

#61. On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: 'He was definitely the player to be named later.'

Rocky Bridges

#62. 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

#63. I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player,

David Cage

#64. I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

Albert Brooks

#65. Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

Bill Klem

#66. Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.

Hideo Kojima

#67. I think there's a real hunger for people speaking truth to power. Like, there's a little minority now that's saying you sounded like an asshole and a whiner. But that's just the player-hating fringe. I wouldn't worry about it.

Jonathan Franzen

#68. What I'm doing is creating a game. I'm not making a movie. To make the game more enjoyable and captivating, and to make the player feel like he's present in that setting, we need the cinematic element.

Hideo Kojima

#69. Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

James Patterson

#70. The whole of life was a game. But if it was a game, then were you the player or were you the pawn?

Terry Pratchett

#71. I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection.

Vince Lombardi

#72. Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to ... When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

Ray Bradbury

#73. More than just music, the splash of water or a lone footstep can put you in the moment. Sound is just another tool in the developer's toolbox to draw the player further into the game.

Rob Manuel

#74. I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius.

Diego Maradona

#75. It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

Guy Forget

#76. But the player librarians all over the country were raving about most was Marjory Muldauer from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool.

Chris Grabenstein

#77. Musicians sort of knew this already - that the emotional center is not the technical center, that funky grooves are not square, and what sounds like a simple beat can either be sensuous or simply a metronomic timekeeper, depending on the player.

David Byrne

#78. [The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Robert Altman

#79. My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.

Tom Weiskopf

#80. Substitution is a true test of strength. The real performance of a player is seen not only during playing time but also and more especially when the player is substituted.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#81. The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

Fernando Torres

#82. Be the player in your own dream life. Don't be a spectator watching your dreams every day; Let them get going!

Israelmore Ayivor

#83. 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

#84. The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

Jerry West

#85. Don't hate the player; change the game

Steve Harvey

#86. A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.

Graham Nelson

#87. I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.

Joe Sakic

#88. 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

#89. The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

George Bernard Shaw

#90. You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'

Jeffrey Lurie

#91. According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games.

Pal Benko

#92. I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.

Luis Suarez

#93. I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.

Frank Robinson

#94. The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.

Anthony Holden

#95. Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Honore De Balzac

#96. When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

Pele

#97. Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.

Salman Rushdie

#98. Mine was the game where the player cannot lose and may win.

Charlotte Bronte

#99. The Player Character Sheet is a psychic osmotic membrane.

Tod Foley

#100. It's hard to dismiss the obvious symmetry between Longo [Evan Longoria] and the franchise for which he's now the poster-child: for the player, Hondo Junior College to MLB All-Star ... for the team, worst to first.

Tucker Elliot