Player Quotes

• I always wanted to be a professional player, but when I started playing well in Challengers and, for the first time, I did well at ATP tournaments, I saw that these guys are also beatable.

  

  Dominic Thiem
  • Time
  • Player
  • Professional

• Well, it speaks to the character of the players more than anything. Bob Myers and his staff have done an incredible job of putting together this roster. I was well aware of the versatility that the roster had, but as I got to know the players I realized they had what it took spiritually, emotionally. They were united. They wanted to win. They were close.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • Character
  • Together
  • Winning

• It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Information
  • Defenses
  • Pitchers

• When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.

  

  Joshua Prince-Ramus
  • College
  • Player
  • Study

• I'm unemployed, and I don't believe I'm out of the NFL because I'm gay, but if it was a reason, it can hurt their livelihood, and you don't want to take that chance.

  

  Michael Sam
  • Believe
  • Reason
  • Hurt

• 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
  • Past
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Moments
  • Hours
  • Workout

• My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.

  

  Carlos Tevez
  • Dream
  • Player
  • Ideals

• Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.

  

  Craig Brown
  • High
  • Player
  • Moral

• I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Player
  • Coaching
  • Directed

• I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio) wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe was the best all-around player. Joe was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

  

  Willie Mays
  • Problem
  • Player
  • Hero

• Players win games, and coaches win players.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Player
  • Games
  • Coaches

• Leo Messi is a spectacular player, there is nobody else like him. I should not because I have suffered so much in training. I think he is the best forward at the moment and I think he will be so for many more years. He has his feet on the ground.

  

  Carles Puyol
  • Moments
  • Should
  • Feet

• I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of the game, there's no harm in hanging around those guys at all.

  

  Chase Utley
  • World
  • Guy
  • Said

• If u come to Sri Lanka you will find that DHONI has more fans than any other Srilankan player.

  

  Arjuna Ranatunga
  • Player
  • Fans
  • Sri Lanka

• 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
  • Up
  • Player

• The first thing I thought when I finished Ernest Cline's 'Ready Player One' was, 'My God, it's the grown-up's 'Harry Potter.'' Now this is from a mega 'HP' fan, so I mean business, here.

  

  Rebecca Serle
  • Business
  • Thing
  • Potter

• Every player has played with gay guys.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Player
  • Gay

• In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

  

  Nelson Rodrigues
  • Blind
  • Ball
  • Sees

• I just want to be remembered as a fantastic player who gave everything for the team and enjoyed every bit of it.

  

  Virgil van Dijk
  • Team
  • Player
  • Enjoyed

• Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Giving
  • Player
  • Sports

• I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Player
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Path
  • Golf
  • Duty

• All I want is to have fun in what I'm doing every day. I don't want to break records. To become the greatest player ever could take me like...10 more years and I don't think I'll still be playing at 31.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Records

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