Player Quotes
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Honestly my style sense, I guess, started in high school when I was a volleyball player. That was just what I wore: leggings every single day with my sports bra so I didn't have to change into it in the girls' gym locker room and that's kind of how it started.
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You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.
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When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.
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Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
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I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.
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I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.
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I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
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Every single sport works out your body in a different way, and you can almost point out their bodies - like, that's a swimmer, that's a football player.
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To be honest, I've never looked really hard for musicians. I'll just randomly meet people. I've never interviewed bandmates or anything like that. The reason I like playing with Chad and Devin is that they're just really, really good musicians and good players. There's not a lot of sloppiness going on.
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I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.
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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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As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill at Leicester and Celtic and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.
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He can have a guy hanging all over his arm but still have the touch to finish. It's something I've never seen a post player have.
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My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.
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You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.
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I was not a very good football player when I started out.
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I just think he's a very determined player and dedicated to what he's doing. He's doing a lot of letting things develop on their own.
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I've got to tell you, for a little old guy fighting his guts out, we really like him. We've got some tough decisions there to make, and certainly he stood up.
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They wanted me to lead these young players, teach them the way to compete, when the only thing I should be worried about is how I'm performing in the game.
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Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.
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Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I'd say I'm influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to 'It's Not My Cross to Bear' first thing.
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The fact I am the most expensive player is not a burden.
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For me, Paul Scholes is on the same level as Ronaldo. The real Ronaldo, not Cristiano. I always thought he was a great player but after I played alongside him I realised he was Manchester United's greatest player of all time. He did his talking on the pitch which I respected most.
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To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry.
