Player Quotes
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The players who have reached out to me and told me about their sexual orientation, it just means a lot.
Michael Sam -
Whether you're tall and you play a basketball player, or overweight and you play somebody who is dealing with the issues behind the weight, we all have to pull from real life to make those performances authentic.
Chrissy Metz
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A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.
Darryl Sutter -
I must take the best decision for the club, not for a single player.
Antonio Conte -
People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
Pete Sampras -
Wayne Bennett believes in himself and his players, and he always will.
Darren Lockyer -
Messi won 3 Ballons d'Or and is competing for another one. He will be the best player in the world until he retires.
Sergio Aguero -
As a professional soccer player, I need to get touches on the ball every day, and obviously it's a lot easier to do that with a team than to motivate yourself to do it by yourself.
Alex Morgan
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She has really lost in some curious ways. She's a wonderful player, but she really hasn't looked good in finals. The best final she played was her first.
Bud Collins -
I would not have an event before the majors. I would build them up. It very rarely happens that a player plays the week before, wins the event, and then goes on to win the slam.
John McEnroe -
Every player has played with gay guys.
Charles Barkley -
My mom was a volleyball player, and my dad was a soccer player. I never thought about it, but they always served healthy food at home, and I love it, and it kind of was a regular part of my day.
Caroline Wozniacki -
The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him
Michel Platini -
Matt Williams the coach said that he saw my role as coming off the bench as an impact player but obviously I see myself as more than just that.
Jason White Green Day
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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
Joe Torre -
A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!
Cannonball Adderley -
Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.
Retief Goosen -
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.
Andrew Soltis -
The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention with golf is like selling Shakespeare in the neighbourhood saloon.
Bob Toski -
For a 7-iron, you never want the ball to be closer to your left heel than just slightly ahead of the mid-point of your stance. That's especially true if you're a tall player, like me.
Ernie Els
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Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don't fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it's not acceptable.
Arsene Wenger -
If you're a young kid out there, put away your Twitter accounts if you want to be a pro football player. Somebody's going to hack your account; somebody's going to cause you problems.
Jon Gruden -
I believe in my heart I'm the best player in the world. I'm just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I'm just confident in my ability to play ball.
Allen Iverson -
I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.
David Shields