Player Quotes
We're excited to bring in a veteran player like Sam who brings nine years of playoff experience and two championships, ... The addition of Sam strengthens our backcourt. He's a big-time scorer who is one of the best in the league when it comes to taking and making the big shot in the closing moments of a ballgame.
Elgin Baylor
Most guitar players get a name because the band that they're in has become popular. That doesn't mean that they're particularly good, whereas conversely, you've got people like Albert Lee, an incredible player, one of my favourites who's not in a famous band, so he doesn't get into the popularity polls. I have to laugh at some of the people that do get into the popularity polls - some of them are so bad, but they're in a band that's at the top of the hit parade. I think people mix that up.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
I have two brothers that are musicians. My older brother, Yuval, is a saxophone player. My younger brother, Avishai, is a trumpet player.
Anat Cohen
I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.
Mark Teixeira
I called a couple other things in those time outs, both times. It's what Vince wanted, and again, I was trying to go to the best player.
Dan Monson
Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.
Will Wright
I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.
Kevin Durand
I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.
Diana Ross
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The trumpet solo will be played by our solo trumpet player. It's named 'Blumine,' which has something to do with flowers.
Eugene Ormandy
At the FIFA World Player of the Year event, FIFA executives and FIFA president Sepp Blatter didn't know who I was. And I was being honored as top three in the world. That was pretty shocking.
Alex Morgan
I was on the bench watching and I wanted to be out there competing against him. He's a heck of a player. When you run into great players you want to be out there competing with them.
Eddie Charles Jones
My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We're building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.
Dikembe Mutombo
I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.
Fred Couples
It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.
Khloe Kardashian
Mark and other team members have worked cooperatively with us in renegotiations, approaching the matter like the veterans and team leaders that they are.
Joe Gibbs
I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.
Brian O'Driscoll
Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
Mario Lemieux
