Player Quotes · Page 118

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards…

— Marlee Matlin

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

— Frank Deford

Even my players aren't players.

— Casey Stengel

We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next…

— Barack Obama

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

— Criss Jami

I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of…

— Chase Utley

This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality,…

— Barry Alvarez

So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find…

— Charlie Hunter

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

— Savielly Tartakower

Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision…

— Carl Deuker

What I'm doing is creating a game. I'm not making a movie. To make the game more enjoyable and captivating, and to…

— Hideo Kojima

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I…

— Matt Kuchar

The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted…

— Jay Bilas

As someone who's very competitive, I'm someone who abhors losing more than I enjoy winning. In that regard, it hasn't been a…

— Skip Prosser

In today's retail environment, competition comes from every conceivable retail format. To succeed, we have to operate more efficiently and compete more…

— Bill Vaughan

When we have the football, everybody’s a player.

— Brendan

I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

Great players inspire you. The best player I played with was Gervi (Gervinho)

— Eden Hazard

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the…

— Paul McCartney

The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated…

— Daniel Levitin

I want to be a complete baseball player. I've always said that.

— Nolan Arenado

I'm just another player that comes in and comes out. Everybody's time is up at some point, I don't think that's my…

— David Ortiz

As a player, I like playing as much cricket as possible, irrelevant of the format.

— Suresh Raina

He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I…

— Jose Mourinho

I'm an attacking player, and I can play wide.

— Gerard Deulofeu

Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most…

— Steven Pinker

I want to show people who I really am, especially aspiring basketball players who want to be at this level. That's what…

— Kevin Durant

If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been…

— Anatoly Karpov

I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for…

— Sandy Koufax

At Lyon, there's 20 other superstars there - I'm not the best player there. I'm not the best player at England.

— Lucy Bronze

That's right, Mitt Romney took on Evander Holyfield in a boxing match for charity, and it was a pretty one-sided fight. But…

— Jimmy Fallon

Several of our players at Stanford have used the J-Glove and J-Strap with excellent results. It is a very useful training tool…

— Tara VanDerveer

Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.

— Mike Eruzione

I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media.

— Phil Mickelson

It is normal for a player to dream about playing for a bigger club.

— Luka Modric

Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the…

— Tom Seaver

When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.

— Logan Mankins

Although I'm a scratch Ping-Pong player, there is no possibility of me beating a top professional.

— Matt Kuchar

Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but…

— Bruce Pandolfini

With [Samuel] Eto'o, I talked a lot about his great career and how I could become a better player.

— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang