Player Quotes

• I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Work
  • Done
  • Baseball

• You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Know
  • Learn
  • Better

• And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

  

  Don McLean
  • Music
  • Band
  • Marching Band

• I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while, I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Game
  • Player
  • Golf

• My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Country
  • College
  • Football

• I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Player
  • Golf
  • Hysteria

• Santana has fantastic ball reaction, ... Very few people can snatch a ball right out of the air like that. And he has great burst. He can be running and he doesn't even put his hands up because he has such confidence. He's very much a downfield threat.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Sammy Lee is another inbred player

  

  David Pleat
  • Player
  • Inbreds

• I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Think
  • Me
  • Balance

• I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.

  

  R.A. Dickey
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Baseball

• The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Game
  • Opportunity

• Sure, I get tired. But it's a long season, and you've got to play no matter if you have a little injury. I'm that kind of player.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Long
  • Player
  • Tired

• Mike Brown wanted to hire me to work with LeBron in player development.

  

  David Fizdale
  • Work
  • Player

• You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Game
  • Learn

• If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

  

  Danny Masterson
  • Player
  • Softball

• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me. Even if I walk with light, I am not the light; and if I am a taut-stringed lute, I am not the lute player.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Song

• I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Game
  • Team
  • Yourself

• In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

  

  Bob Uecker
  • Player

• International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.

  

  Danny Baker
  • Soccer
  • Friendly
  • Philanthropic

• At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Player

• When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

  

  Anna Kournikova
  • Why
  • Theatre
  • Ugly

• Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.

  

  Katherine McNamara
  • Up
  • Basketball
  • Ballet

• You talk about Shaq, I would put Tim Duncan in that same category. Mr. Fundamental, just kept things simple. He is a great teammate, a great player, and a great person. When you have those ingredients in a champion, you just want to be a part of that and have an opportunity to play with him.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Simple

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