Player Quotes
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I think my father is probably the best coach ever because, if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.
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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.
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When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.
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Michael Jordan is probably the greatest scorer to ever play in the game. But I may go as far to say Lebron James may be the the greatest player to ever play the game.
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I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.
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A happy player is a good player, I think.
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The players need to remember to run with their bodies above their legs.
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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.
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A good golf course is like good music or good anything else; it is not necessarily a course which appeals the first time one plays over it, but one which grows on the player the more frequently he visits it.
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China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
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I'm fortunate in that I'm what you call a utility player, in that I can take a scene, if there's five or six minor characters in a scene, that need voice and personality and I can supply those characters.
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For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.
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When you don't have results it is very difficult for players to have that high confidence.
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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.
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The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.
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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.
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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.
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I mean, to win a major, you've got to be a good player and you've got to get your breaks, as well, to win.
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I've always been a player and a person who wanted to be the best at whatever he did.
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The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.
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Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.
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We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.
