Player Quotes · Page 131

I couldn't ever be a better player than I was in 1988.

— Mats Wilander

I always wanted to play professional hockey. Every hockey player's dream, no matter at what level or what age, is to play…

— Ed Belfour

All I want to do is improve as a player.

— Aaron Ramsey

I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it…

— Joe Sakic

Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art.

— Peter Storey

I am really proud to HAVE been an Arsenal player.

— Cesc Fabregas

Pandora: *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* runs out of skips.. *changes station*

— Anonymous

Every player has played with gay guys.

— Charles Barkley

If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But…

— Jack Nicklaus

We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.

— Alex Agase

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just…

— Graham Taylor

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content…

— Brad Paisley

In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having…

— Jane Leavy

There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There…

— Merrell Fankhauser

I didn't even have a record player as a kid, so everything was down to radio.

— Rory Gallagher

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be…

— Edward Abbey

I try to stay as young as these rookies are.It feels a bit strange not to be anymore the youngster I used…

— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

I had a chance to play against the USA teams when I was a player. I wasn't on any USA team but…

— Danny Ainge

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

— Chuck Mangione

I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in…

— Boris Kodjoe

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

— John Fogerty

Afridi has been a wonderful player for Pakistan.

— Michael Clarke

I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.

— Monte Irvin

A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.

— Lou Piniella

Every player goes through rough patches.

— K. L. Rahul

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he…

— Mose Allison

Thierry Henry, he was definitely the best. He was just too quick. Oh God, what a player he was. I was so…

— Jamie Carragher

Our advertising partnership with Allegiant Air is a natural fit for us. Branding encompasses everything from good customer service to strategic advertising…

— Calvin Ayre

If I were to choose a player, I'd love to have Pogba for Bayern. I'd like that, he's fantastic.

— Kingsley Coman

Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

— Don Meyer

Ovechkin does not play like a Russian. He plays like an NHL player.

— Vladislav Tretiak

My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the…

— Dolly Parton

The best thing that I think happened to me was I got the opportunity to have really good players and we were…

— Phil Jackson

I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was…

— Elana Meyers

As far as dude running the ball, or running with the ball, and somebody hit you helmet to helmet, I think you…

— Clinton Portis

In 2008, when I was wrapped up a very toxic relationship, I lived out of my car for about four months to…

— Jennifer Welter

I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that…

— Elvis Costello

Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same…

— Michael Cera

I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing, it's not really... You're…

— Avicii

While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes…

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau