Player Quotes

• I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • True
  • Opportunity
  • Songs

• Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Life
  • Better
  • Battle

• Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I was a professional tennis player once. And then, of course, she had never heard of me so I had to dig deeper. 'I'm just sort of on the playing satellites. You know, I'm kind of working my way up. I'm not ranked in the top 100 or anything.'

  

  James Roday
  • Up
  • She
  • Girl

• I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Freedom
  • Team
  • Chaos

• I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Past
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • School
  • High
  • Strong

• I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

  

  Jo Stafford
  • Player
  • Lyrics

• 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
  • Guy
  • Film
  • Professional

• I'm a decent table tennis player, but if you were to put me up against any of the guys you see on television at the Olympics, I'd be lucky to get a couple of points.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Tennis

• I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.

  

  Anne Boleyn
  • Important
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Me

• Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Good
  • Player
  • Baseball

• 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
  • Time
  • Player

• The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Career

• I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

  

  Brian Griese
  • Help
  • Player
  • Chicago

• I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

  

  Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

  

  Pele
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• I've seen some players with very big feet ... and some with very small feet.

  

  David Pleat
  • Small
  • Bigs
  • Feet

• I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • School
  • Free
  • Small

• Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • House
  • Feel
  • Connection

• I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Clay
  • Surfaces
  • Specialist

• 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
  • Player

• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • World
  • Free
  • Learn

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