Player Quotes

• I'm the same player, my characteristics don't match what they want and Simeone isn't going to change his ideas for me.

  

  Gelson Martins
  • Change
  • Player
  • Characteristics

• 'The Player,' I loved so much because it was such a labor of love on all levels, and it was such an enormous honor to be in a Robert Altman movie.

  

  Cynthia Stevenson
  • Movie
  • Player
  • Honor

• I'm trying to be a complete player and have every shot in the game.

  

  Heather Watson
  • Game
  • Player

• I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Proud
  • Player
  • Balls

• So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

  

  Miroslav Vitous
  • Player
  • Players
  • Albums

• I study harder now than I ever did in college or high school. There's just so much pressure to know what's going on, and I feel like, especially with social media, there's always new information coming out on the teams, the players, the coaches, and the games. You can never be fully read enough, and I'm just constantly reading articles, watching games, and trying to read blogs.

  

  Erin Andrews
  • School
  • Team
  • Reading

• The World Series introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson - might have been one or two more in '68.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • World
  • Black
  • Firsts

• It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

  

  Al-Masudi
  • Player
  • Fortune
  • Backgammon

• Coaching is one thing and one thing only: It is creating an environment so the player has an opportunity to be successful. That is your job as a coach. When you teach him to do that, get out of his way.

  

  Chip Kelly
  • Opportunity
  • Successful
  • Creating

• I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, .. Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.

  

  Calvin Ayre
  • Choices
  • Basketball
  • Charity

• In hockey I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

  

  Eric Gagne
  • Baseball
  • Hockey
  • Goons

• 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

• There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God.

  

  Eusebio
  • God
  • Player
  • Pele

• I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.

  

  Norm Sloan
  • Player
  • Master
  • Moves

• The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Different
  • Study
  • Helping

• Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.

  

  Darrelle Revis
  • People
  • Better
  • Bowl

• The thing that can get confusing is you think, is this guy really a good player or does he just seem that way based on the way that they are playing. That takes longer to figure out, if they really are a good player or they just seem like one [bad].

  

  Daniel Negreanu
  • Thinking
  • Seems
  • Figures

• I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.

  

  Michael Sam
  • Guy
  • Wish
  • Football

• Messi is the best player in the history of football, and that’s why I prefer Barça over Real Madrid.

  

  Antonio Cassano
  • Best
  • Football
  • Player

• My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Father
  • Sports

• 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
  • Life
  • Positions
  • Damaged

• If you're a skilled player, you want to use your skill, not just hit the puck.

  

  Gabe Polsky
  • Player

• When you don't have results it is very difficult for players to have that high confidence.

  

  Nemanja Matic
  • Player
  • Confidence
  • Results

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