You Are A Player Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.

Joe Namath

#3. Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.

Viswanathan Anand

#4. You always study the players you go against. You try and stay ahead of it. Those guys are just too good to just show up on Sunday and think you're going to do well. Every week it seems like there's an all-star out there - to me, anyway. Every week is a rodeo. You just hope for the best.

Tom Ashworth

#5. When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude,

Jose Mourinho

#6. It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.

Branch Rickey

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

Slash

#8. A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

Jason Kidd

#9. You are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.

Rosemary Rawlins

#10. 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

#11. There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.

Nacho Figueras

#12. Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players.

George Carlin

#13. 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

#14. One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

Mark Cuban

#15. It's more like winning than winning itself, and everyone knows you are not a real player until you secretly prefer losing.

Lawrence Osborne

#16. Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.

Clive Swift

#17. In high school, when you're a top player, there are ways of getting eligible, ways of getting out of going to class. It made going to the next level, which is college, that much harder.

Chad Ochocinco

#18. The thing that can get confusing is you think, is this guy really a good player or does he just seem that way based on the way that they are playing. That takes longer to figure out, if they really are a good player or they just seem like one [bad].

Daniel Negreanu

#19. Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

Alice Cooper

#20. Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.

John C. Maxwell

#21. The person who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. I expected my players to make mistakes, as long as they were mistakes of commission. A mistake of commission happens when you are doing what should be done but don't get the results you want.

John Wooden

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

Rich Gunnell

#23. There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

Joe Perry

#24. As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.

Carmelo Anthony

#25. I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

Gabriela Sabatini

#26. Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which, I admit, are very good for the ordinary club player. But once you've reached a certain strength you get the impression that everything that Euwe writes is a lie.

Bent Larsen

#27. 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

#28. If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference.

Arsene Wenger

#29. You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

Wayne Rooney

#30. Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.

Mike McConathy

#31. Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

Bob Hope

#32. A lot of players are slow to change, you're playing good,( you think) why do I want to mess with that ? It takes a lot of testing, a lot of practice and observation of the ball, especially under competitive circumstances, to realize this is a better product and I need to start using it.

David Duval

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

Jay Woodman

#34. So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in [Kirk] Cousins, Niles [Paul] and [Bashaud] Breeland who may be better than the players that they're replacing.

Bill Cowher

#35. Talk to me when your nuts are so blue they look like something you can hang on a Christmas tree.

Amy Andrews

#36. The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Lenny Wilkens

#37. Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

Esperanza Spalding

#38. You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!

Israelmore Ayivor

#39. 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

#40. What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

John Wooden

#41. I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

Daymond John

#42. If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.

Chris Moneymaker

#43. Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

Al Lopez

#44. Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.

John Wooden

#45. The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

Michael Lewis

#46. Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the next thing you know, your bass player turns into a can of soup.

Mitch Hedberg

#47. The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.

Peter Jacobsen

#48. The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they've developed together as a group.

Terry Riley

#49. The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters and garnering all the adulation that goes with it. But, if you're not hitting or not throwing well, or are injured, you better look for fun someplace else.

Dave Winfield

#50. Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

John Kessel

#51. Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

David Cone

#52. I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.

Jim Oberweis

#53. All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.

Yao Ming

#54. 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

#55. Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They're basically saying you're a pretty good defensive player along with everything else. But I was about the offensive side.

Mike Schmidt

#56. When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

Diana Lopez

#57. Test cricket is the only thing that counts. One-day and T20 performances are fine, but you rate a player by his status as a Test player. By the time I finish, I want to play at least 80 Tests and be known for my achievements in Tests.

Suresh Raina

#58. Will you bring life to your dream or will you allow it to die of neglect? It is absolutely true that you have a divine summons to fulfill, but it's not automatic and it's not guaranteed. You are the major player who must give yourself fully to the process of becoming.

T.D. Jakes

#59. You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead a team and to play as a team which means, your team has leaders but you still function as a team.

Berti Vogts

#60. If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.

Gary Sheffield

#61. We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

Branch Rickey

#62. If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.

Gabe Newell

#63. Its a real honor to be included among the list of finalists, when you see the names that are there, ... Some of the guys who won the Hank Aaron Award in the past are thought of as some of the best players in the history of the game, so just to be included with those guys is really gratifying.

Mark Teixeira

#64. 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

#65. Of course, the best thing, if you play in the Premier League, you can always develop further as a player, and you are playing against the best players. You are also playing game after game all the time, two or three games a week.

Mesut Ozil

#66. I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.

Alex Ferguson

#67. I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

Justin Timberlake

#68. 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

#69. People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!

Hannah Storm

#70. I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward.

Paul Randall

#71. When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so ... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

R.A. Salvatore

#72. As a manager you are important sometimes and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me the special one.

Rafael Benitez

#73. My aim is to create a happy environment where the players are working hard, but enjoying themselves. You've got to enjoy yourself, and you've got to have a bit of fun as well.

Warren Gatland

#74. I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.

Magnus Carlsen

#75. It's great if you can afford to carry a string section on the road with you, but most people are used to the idea of just a keyboard player creating those string sounds.

Todd Rundgren

#76. As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

David Gower

#77. If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.

Jose Mourinho

#78. 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

#79. I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class

George Raveling

#80. I don't know who you are," she thought, "but whoever you are, you're one hell of a player.

Jeffrey Eaton

#81. It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school.

Paul Horn

#82. Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

Ernie J Zelinski

#83. In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

Rohit Sharma

#84. The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz ... you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

Keith Jarrett

#85. Iniesta is the boyfriend that every mother wants her daughter to have. The figures over his career tell you all you need to know. He is a magical player. There are few players in the world that can compare to him.

Sergio Ramos

#86. You are either a pawn or a player. I am no one's tool. I am no one's pawn. I am a player. In the world of kill or be killed I'm a murderess. I will ripe out your throat with my bare hands and lick the blood from my fingers.-Lilith

Ashley Jeffery

#87. Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

Elbert Hubbard

#88. Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

Donald Driver

#89. Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

Dominique Wilkins

#90. I'm not sure why you are playing hard to get," he breathed, his lips so close to my skin that I fought hard not to shudder. "You shouldn't try to play games with me because I'm not a player. I'm the coach.

Adriana Locke

#91. I hope I become a better player day after day. This is one of my goals. I want to improve in every situation, but when you are playing along with top figures, it is a quality bonus and a bigger effort. Besides, the Spanish Liga also gives you the chance to progress and improve.

David Beckham

#92. On the other side, I do think there's a melding in there. There are situations
I've done contracts for Carlos Gonzalez, or just recently I did one for Elvis Andrus
to where there is a melding of the club's wants and the player's wants where you do things in advance of free agency.

Scott Boras

#93. They (Liverpool players) are passing the cup down the line like a new born baby. Although when they are back in the dressing room they will probably fill it with champagne, something you should never do to a baby.

Alan Parry

#94. In parting, I would remind you that Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!

Napoleon Hill

#95. In the last year I have gained a lot of experience because I have been playing against top players and realized what things to work on to get better. Top players basically tell you what your weaknesses are on the court.

Maria Sharapova

#96. Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.

Gilbert Arenas

#97. Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.

Grant Hill

#98. There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.

Tony Dungy

#99. I always got on well with Roberto Mancini and never had a problem with him. Every manager has their own way of working, tactics, and style of play. As a player, you do what the manager says. There are misunderstandings, but generally, everything was fine under Mancini.

Sergio Aguero

#100. If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Stephen Sondheim