Player Quotes
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I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
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I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.
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Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.
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I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.
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Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
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When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.
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I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
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It's really up to me to speed up my learning curve as a player so I can contribute in a much bigger way night in and night out.
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Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.
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Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.
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Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.
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We think he has great flexibility for us.
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My dad has been my coach since I was seven years old - from 7 to 18 is when he coached my club team - and so it was always in the family. He introduced me to soccer at a young age and also kind of molded me into a good player at a young age, too. Which then I grew to love the game and be as passionate as he was.
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Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.
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Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.
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I'm sick at myself for not winning more. But I am always trying to find ways to make myself a better player. I am not just turning up to make up the numbers.
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In my time abroad, I learned to become a more complete player.
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If you think about it, player for player we are fairly huge. It's rare when you can put that type of lineup in and mix in some size and athleticism.
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As long as you can find a place to develop as an all-round player, then you're doing great.
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A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.
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It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?
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I was never going to be the best player the world has ever seen but one thing I can be proud of is that I genuinely believe I have become the best player that I could have become.
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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.
