You Can't Change A Player Quotes

#1. Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.

Johan Cruijff

#2. Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

Cootie Williams

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

Steve Harvey

#4. My record shows that I'm not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years.

Luis Suarez

#5. It's not just enough to change the players. We've gotta change the game.

Barack Obama

#6. Anything can happen to change your life at any moment. Live life to the fullest. Do not be a spectator in your life be a player.

Julie Campbell

#7. If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.

Diego Maradona

#8. The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.

William C. Rhoden

#9. I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.

Johan Cruijff

#10. When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing
winning.

John Calipari

#11. There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.

Bucky Harris

#12. There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it'll change.

Tim Willits

#13. Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#14. There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.

Johan Cruijff

#15. 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

#16. Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.

Johan Cruijff

#17. Oftentimes, the whole reason we became programmers in the first place is because we wanted to move beyond being a mere player and change the game, control it, modify its parameters, maybe even create our own games.

Jeff Atwood

#18. Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.

Johan Cruijff

#19. They didn't change positions, they just moved the players around.

Terry Venables

#20. 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

#21. Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.

Ivan Lendl

#22. Players know that they can trust me which is really important. They know that I had the ability to adapt to change, and they have seen that many times over the years. I think these are important parts of being in control of footballers.

Alex Ferguson

#23. I couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#24. We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.

Johan Cruijff

#25. When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.

Johan Cruijff

#26. My goal is to let people see who I am as a person, not just a basketball player. Many people see athletes in a certain way - flat and one dimensional. I want to change that view.

Blake Griffin

#27. There's so much there to cultivate an opportunity to change the mindset of how players think, in terms of not lending their power over to just anyone. I've been a victim of that, and it's difficult to rebound from.

Eddie George

#28. Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

Garry Kasparov

#29. The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

Patrick Ewing

#30. If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.

Bjorn Borg

#31. When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

Oscar Robertson

#32. No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

Jay-Z

#33. The Houston Astros want to change the name of Enron Field where they play. I guess the Enron name could cause problems for them. Like players could steal a base and then deny it.

Jay Leno

#34. 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