Player Quotes
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Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
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He practiced against Kobe all of last year, so obviously it was sweet revenge for him. We deserved that. We didn't know who he was, we gave him up to Charlotte, we had no idea how good a player he was.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
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We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
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I've been on my grind to be the best player I can.
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So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
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Owning a popular sports team is very different than any other type of business. They don't throw parades when Apple has the biggest quarter in corporate history. People don't call and email asking for anyone from the team to come visit their sick child. They don't cry as they request a jersey of their child's favorite player to be buried with them.
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In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.
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I don't really have a 'favorite' person to play with. I like to play with the player that is playing the best, but it doesn't always work out that way.
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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
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I'm a wicked ping-pong player.
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I really try to play to my strengths, man. I'm never going to be Guthrie Govan: he's a brilliant player.
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I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.
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It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
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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.
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Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.
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Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.
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It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
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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.
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In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.' 5
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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
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If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.
