Player Quotes
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I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.
Matt Sharp
Weezer
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You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.
Jeremy Lin
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A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.
Rabih Alameddine
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A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
Jason Kidd
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The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.
Doc Rivers
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You only go to Tennessee if you're a great player and want to compete at the highest level and want to get pushed. There's a certain kind of mentality that's there. This is a different kind of mindset that's been really important at the championship level.
C. T. Vivian
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He's definitely the best player in the NBA - to me. I don't know if winning the (MVP) award is important to him or not. But he has three (championship) rings and that's what it's all about.
Kobe Bryant
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I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.
Eric Davis
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I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.
Pele
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Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change.
Bruce Lipton
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I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.
Matthew Perry
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I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.
Don Baylor
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What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool.
Daniel Adair
3 Doors Down
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My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.
Mac DeMarco
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I expect myself to be the best player I can be. I really believe I can be one of the best who's ever played. That's how hard I work. That's going to be my mindset no matter where I am or what I'm doing.
Jalen Brunson
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You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'
Alison Krauss
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The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!
Kevin Keegan
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I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.
James G. Stavridis
