Players Quotes

• I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Reason
  • Companies
  • Athletes

• If I take a lick from so and so, I'm not going to get that many variations from it, because their phrases are just based on a scale. That's why I say Wes Montgomery has more substance than others. I find myself listening to the older players. You see one bar of theirs and you can get one hundred more licks out of it.

  

  Emily Remler
  • Listening
  • Bar
  • Variations

• My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were covered with 1970s Stoke players, like Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks, and Jimmy Greenhoff.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Growing Up
  • Players
  • Footballer

• I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Players
  • Pictures
  • Hoping

• Today’s national movements, women’s and blacks’, seem more interested in being players in the white male club than challenging the white male patriarchy.

  

  BarbaraNeely
  • Players
  • Movements
  • Patriarchy

• There's so much there to cultivate an opportunity to change the mindset of how players think, in terms of not lending their power over to just anyone. I've been a victim of that, and it's difficult to rebound from.

  

  Eddie George
  • Power
  • Opportunity
  • Victim

• Most of the players have grown to like the course more and more. I think it helps that we don't change locations. The Players has grown in popularity because it stays in Jacksonville. The fact the Players Championship doesn't move around has helped people accept the golf course. If you want to be a good player, you'd better learn to like it.

  

  Brad Faxon
  • Change
  • Learn
  • Golf

• “I had to lift players' expectations. They should never give in. I said that to them all the time: "If you give in once, you'll give in twice.”

  

  Alex Ferguson
  • Expectations
  • Players
  • Give in

• I've established a company - The Edward George Wealth Management Group - which facilitates in helping players maintain their finances, and more importantly, maintain their lives during the duration of their careers and beyond.

  

  Eddie George
  • Careers
  • Established
  • Facilities

• With seven new players, we're never going to have an experienced lineup. This is who we are. We're a very young and inexperienced basketball team. But they're willing to play hard.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Players
  • Experienced
  • Seven

• So we have to make sure that we always have top-class players. And to always have top-class players, we need top-class expertise all the way from top to bottom. We need to start with the five-year-olds, keep going with the ten-year-olds and invest in quality at an early age.

  

  Oliver Bierhoff
  • Quality
  • Invest
  • Expertise

• I have to be involved in negotiations because players have to buy into me and what I want from them if they join my club, so all managers need to be fully involved in transfers, that's for sure.

  

  Alan Pardew
  • Players
  • Club
  • Negotiations

• A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.

  

  Stephen Pagliuca
  • Players
  • NBA Owners
  • Midcourt

• So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in Kirk Cousins, Niles Paul and Bashaud Breeland who may be better than the players that they’re replacing.

  

  Bill Cowher
  • Players
  • Season
  • Replacing

• At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Game
  • Discussion
  • Psychological

• We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.

  

  Isaiah Thomas
  • Players
  • Younger
  • Trading

• I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly.

  

  Andy Gray
  • Players
  • Tossed
  • Needlessly

• There's so many players that I love and admire. Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Mike Landau, Robben Ford, Lee Ritenour, Jay Graydon, John Scofield, Warren Haynes - the list goes on and on.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Love
  • Players
  • Admire

• Certainly I thought that was important for us. Particularly when you've got new receivers, you want to get in some kind of a groove there.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Important
  • Game
  • Improvement

• I don't have any [specific] intelligence about a Vice-Disney deal, but I do know that everybody's nervous about these emerging players, who can come in and have enough attractive, original content to take market share.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Intelligence
  • Disney
  • Market

• I have been very disappointed in the behavior of both teams during this series and I would urge the coaches, captains and managers to get their players together and remind them of the importance of playing in a professional manner.

  

  Clive Lloyd
  • Coaches
  • Teams
  • Disappointed

• Bodies like this give sexual desire its meaning! It’s for this that penises rise like drawbridges and vaginas become engorged with blood! It’s for this that people throw snot-nosed kids into ravines, cross raging rivers, or ice-pick up the wrong side of frozen waterfalls! It’s for this that politicians undo their flies in election season, porn magazines with their pages stuck together are found stacked in church basements, people chop off body parts and mail them to ex-lovers, risk hair on palms, stolen wallets, planes flying into buildings, and lice that hop like chess figurines on a board whose players are ever changing.

  

  Barry Webster
  • Blood
  • Rivers
  • Buildings

• I like to breed players that attack people.

  

  David O'Leary
  • People
  • Players
  • Breed

• You define great players as guys that are out there grinding, battling every day with their team.

  

  Aaron Judge
  • Team
  • Players
  • Battling

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