Player Quotes

• Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

  

  Allan Houston
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Athlete

• I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."

  

  Dick Vitale
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• In today's retail environment, competition comes from every conceivable retail format. To succeed, we have to operate more efficiently and compete more effectively against players at all levels of the retail demographic. There is no question that this is a bold and exciting move, and one I believe will have a positive impact on competitive retailing for American consumers in the longer term.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Believe
  • American
  • Today

• Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.

  

  Nerlens Noel
  • School
  • Eyes
  • Mom

• Your job is never secure as a football player - or coach.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Job
  • Football
  • Player

• I'm definitely excited. With our offense, we feel like we can accomplish anything. We tried to jump a big hurdle last year, we had a lot of pitchers injured. Unfortunately, our offense wasn't able to take us all the way through.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Jump
  • Accomplishment
  • Injury

• Joe DiMaggio is the best baseball player I ever saw.

  

  Joe DiMaggio
  • Player
  • Baseball

• The reality is that it's just the nature of the game. It's the nature of playing offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers, where your responsibilities as a player involve those little hits that are going to accumulate. You can't take that out of the game.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Nature
  • Game
  • Reality

• I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Why
  • Player

• The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Position
  • Combination
  • Moves

• Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player

  

  Eamon Quotes
  • Good
  • Great
  • Platini

• Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Records

• The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Life
  • Live
  • Game

• Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

  

  Al Lopez
  • Team
  • Player
  • Goals

• You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Play

• One of the best players I've ever seen in my life! Spectacular on training!! Playing with him was a joy!

  

  Gerard Pique
  • Training
  • Spectacular
  • Scholes

• He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Career
  • Larry Brown
  • Allen Iverson

• The bottom line is I'm a football player, and I played three years of college football, and I produced all three years. I also got better every year, and I just felt like it was time to move on.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Time
  • College
  • Football

• I'm just happy with what I am, and I happen to be a polo player.

  

  Adolfo Cambiaso
  • Happy
  • Player

• In my time abroad, I learned to become a more complete player.

  

  Christen Press
  • Time
  • Player

• Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.

  

  Byron Nelson
  • Great
  • Player

• A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • People
  • Player

• During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.

  

  Chad le Clos
  • Hair
  • Soccer
  • Swimming

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