When you lose, people don't understand why you play this…

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

— Alan Shearer

I'm not a mean player. You'll notice I never pick on a player who has a number above 30.

— Mike Ditka

Pick any player of the world. Make him the captain of India. I can assure you that the results will still be the same.…

— Sourav Ganguly

If a whole team doesn't perform, you cannot pick one player especially and say, 'He doesn't do this or do that.'

— Georginio Wijnaldum

If the veteran only has a year or two left on his contract, teams are hesitant to trade a draft pick for a player…

— Marty Hurney

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting…

— Alan Shearer

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I…

— Jeff Britting

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and…

— Ian Mckellen

I think one of the most important things for a young player's development is that they understand that they will play when they deserve…

— Stan Van Gundy

It's my nature just to teach, help and simplify basketball, that's my mentality. To not make the game so hard. It's really an easy…

— Dawn Staley

“And how about you? Do you want to understand and play the game of life or fool around with miracles?”

— Anthony de Mello

I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For…

— Ian Bogost

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

— Gottfried Benn

When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and…

— Confucius

“That's how we lose people...detail by detail, day by day, until they're pale, pale memories.”

— Sheila Turnage