Player Quotes · Page 116

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame.…

— Gaines Adams

Scholesy is one of my favourite players of all time. He was a great professional who had everything and I used to…

— Paul Gascoigne

I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still…

— Tony DiCicco

To be a player is so difficult.

— Mauricio Pochettino

Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

— Jessica Pare

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

— Brett Favre

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

— Elizabeth I

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist

— Sam Allardyce

He's one of the most coachable players out there.

— Jonathan Toews

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

As a player it's always fun to play with young guys.

— Evan Fournier

I was a beat-the-system sort of player, but you can't beat the system, you have to prepare properly.

— Jimmy White

I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better…

— Jim Edmonds

I never thought I'd be this talented of a player.

— Juan Soto

It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on…

— Freddy Adu

If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.

— Andy Gray

I'm just not a great practice player.

— Tracy McGrady

Putin has succeeded in many ways in making Russia an essential player there. He seems to have stabilized the Assad regime. And…

— Corey Flintoff

I've always been a player that could do a lot of different things.

— Tyrann Mathieu

The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe]…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

We have a lot of young players and some veteran players who make you feel good and give you a lot of…

— Carlos Gonzalez

Why can't I be MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league?

— Derrick Rose

After 50 years as a player and a coach, I will not become a functionary. That's not my world.

— Jupp Heynckes

I think I established myself as an OK player.

— Aaron Boone

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

— Rick Pitino

A lot of players might be tired, but I feel nice and sharp.

— Robbie Keane

The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want…

— Pete Carroll

You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!

— John Adams

...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was…

— Jim Brown

I remember the first time I saw a CD, a technology guy brought one to my house and said we will be…

— John Mellencamp

We have to reduce our expectations of England and we have the players to do it

— Steve McClaren

God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually…

— C. S. Lewis

There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than…

— Dom Starsia

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

— Ty Cobb

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

— Yogi Berra

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are…

— Gordon Strachan

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English…

— Johan Cruijff

I have matured as a player and learnt to perform under different situations.

— Vijay Shankar

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was…

— Kenny Cunningham