Player Quotes
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Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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You're going to have disappointments. But how you handle those disappointments is the important thing for you and everybody that's around you. That's what I found from being not only a player but also a coach.
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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.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it. You know how in New York there's a lot of scaffolding? I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck.
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I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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I was tagged early as the prototypical white player, the guy with the intangibles - the smart player, the guy who did all the right things.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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I'm honored and I think the relationship with Ralph Lauren brand has been so long because it goes beyond the face or the guy. I don't feel that I'm a model at all, because I'm not. I'm a professional polo player that endorses a clothing company.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
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I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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It is no mean feat to come second to a player like that. It's not easy for me to say something like that.
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There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.
