Benjamin Zander Quotes

Who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining?

Benjamin Zander

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• Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Good
  • Mad
  • Players

• It's always about 'what have you done for me lately.' As players we see what is going on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Always
  • See
  • Players

• Obviously, we're very happy to have Tony with us for the foreseeable future, ... Along with Home Depot, he's been an important part of our organization for a number of years, and we're thankful that's going to continue.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Important
  • Home
  • Happy

• I don't think it's as easy as people make it out to be. You also have to protect in there. You're looking through your legs and trying to get something back there 15 yards to a certain spot. Your head's down and there's someone coming who just gets a free whack at you. I don't think there's anything easy about that deal.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • People
  • Trying
  • Game

• You never know what's going to happen, but our goal is to keep everything together. We have a lot to do trying to get ready for next year and continuing to add to our team and continuing to build something. I know we have the right kind of character and right kind of players to build around.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Together

• I would never have thought that would happen, ... Remember, when I signed with the Giants in 1955, it was only eight years since Jackie Robinson. But when I talk to Latino players today, a lot of them don't even realize how hard it was for us then.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Players

• The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Shining

• They were trying to help the players adjust with a word of warning,

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Word

• more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before and shining this our now must come to then

  

  e. e. cummings
  • World
  • Miracle
  • Alive

• You have to perform a balancing act. You don't want to forsake talented upside players for the future who may not be ready to deliver today. If you don't have those guys in the pipeline, your well may run dry.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • May
  • Future
  • Today

• The scouting community always looked at those guys as European players, until now. That may change.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • May
  • Community
  • Players

• It's all about developing an atmosphere where players want to support and help each other. You want a nurturing place where they feel they can make mistakes, ... Philadelphia's got one of the great passers for a big man in Webber. And one of the great players as far as scoring guards in Allen. Certainly, that should give them some momentum to work with as they go through the year.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Help

• Of course, I was there eight years. Seven of the eight years, we had a team. A team. You know what I mean by team? A team. I think when you go through so many players and changes, that tends to drift away a little bit.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Team
  • Changes
  • Players

• I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Cool
  • Player
  • Players

• Men, we don't need you in shining armor. We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Men
  • Brave
  • Shining

• How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Positive
  • Shining

• Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Tears
  • Shining
  • Cleverness

• The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Playing
  • Players
  • Course

• There are a lot of great players from Europe who have never played Augusta, but all the guys in America have all played St. Andrews. They've gone over and made a trip to play St. Andrews.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Players
  • Europe
  • Augusta

• Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Passion

• The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Happy
  • You
  • Chocolate

• Who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining?

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Players
  • Shining