Player Quotes
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I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.
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When I started I was pretty well the only Aboriginal player who was playing tournaments.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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I try to be a complete player - in attack and in defence - and to improve every year.
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Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.
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The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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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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If I was a marginal guy or a practice squad player or a career-long special teamer, you take a hell of a lot less hits in those roles.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.
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I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.
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Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
