Player Quotes
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I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.
Tommy Bolin -
I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.
Frank Lampard
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I just want to develop and be the best player I can be.
Jaylen Brown -
I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.
Ndamukong Suh -
For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.
Chuck Bednarik -
I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
Bryce Harper -
I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.
Sean Durkin -
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.
Howard Staunton
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When I signed in Ottawa two years ago, I felt it was to be an integral part of the team. Over the last two years and more recently over the past year, I feel my role was diminished. This past season, it diminished a lot more. “I would like the opportunity to go somewhere where I can play to the best of my capabilities and be the player that I can be.
Dany Heatley -
Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.
Karch Kiraly -
First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.
Lawrence Taylor -
The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him.
Alan Curbishley -
All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player.
Jon Gruden -
It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.
Nubar Gulbenkian
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Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.
Clair Bee -
I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.
Sergio Aguero -
When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.
Scott Brooks -
Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.
Padma Lakshmi -
When I was a player, I worried only about myself. Good money and easy work.
Mickey Cochrane -
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
Bud Wilkinson
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Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special.
Wilt Chamberlain -
I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.
Johnny Miller -
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.
Alastair Cook -
Who wasn't squatting in one of the handful of prefabricated subject positions proffered by capital or whatever you wanted to call it, lying every time she said "I"; who wasn't a bit player in a looped infomercial for the damaged life?
Ben Lerner