Player Quotes

• Not everything you're going to do in volleyball - or in life, for that matter - is exciting or fully functional, but if you have the willpower to make each minute count, you'll benefit in some way. And it will make you a better player and a better person in the long run.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Long
  • Running
  • Willpower

• I think Coutinho's a great team player with a huge amount of talent. He can use both feet. He scores goals. He links play well and gets between the lines in attack.

  

  Andres Iniesta
  • Great
  • Team
  • Goals

• I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
  • Good
  • Football
  • Player

• I talked to Grant Hill, and I told him, 'I played against you a lot, and now, hopefully, I'm getting to coach a player like you. Jabari has the opportunity to be a special player in this league. But it's not handed to you. He's going to work, and our jobs are to make him better each day.'

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Player

• Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Player
  • Thoughts

• There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Player
  • Turns

• Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.

  

  Fred Seibert
  • Great
  • Real
  • Business

• The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano player and I went into a studio... and we put down some demos... Those demos got to Quincy Jones through an agent... He listened to them, he called me, and we started to record.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • Truth
  • Player

• There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Up
  • Home
  • Team

• It's tough coming out of Nebraska, where you're the man and you have to score, to going to the guy that sets the team up and being a role player.

  

  Tyronn Lue
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Team

• Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player giving play-by-play. We bring the expert commentary.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Experience
  • War
  • Giving

• I love the English spirit because when I was a player, I was an Englishman: I was fighting, and you had to kill me if you wanted to win.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Fighting
  • Player
  • English

• When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives.

  

  Nafis Sadik
  • People
  • Mean
  • Enjoy

• I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Guitar

• Coach Saban did his best job to make me a better player and a better person. I thank him for that.

  

  Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
  • Person
  • Better
  • Coach

• It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • True
  • Player

• I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

  

  Reggie Bush
  • Football
  • Player
  • Cameras

• Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who's gonna love you when you're looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Player
  • Vanity
  • God Will

• I'm a rugby player, really, and I knew I was going to get to him, and when he was about two yards away I just put my head down. There was no malice. I was going for the ball with my head, which I understand is a legitimate move in soccer.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Player
  • Soccer

• I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

  

  Mike Piazza
  • Baseball
  • Organization
  • Whole

• There's a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don't want to have that much of a character because then it destroys the experience of the player being that character.

  

  David S. Goyer
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Player

• The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get to know the players and coaches anymore.

  

  J. A. Adande
  • Player
  • Sports
  • Media

• I wasn't the most technical player. But I was fast, and if I push the ball past a player, I can get there. Everyone always made fun of me in a good way for that.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Past

• Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

  

  Virender Sehwag
  • Age
  • Retirement
  • Retiring

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