Player Quotes · Page 137

If you're not on a team that's winning, it takes a lot out of you as a player.

— Scottie Pippen

Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger…

— Marat Safin

Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has…

— Bobby Fischer

Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.

— Helen Wills Moody

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get…

— William Monahan

I've talked about how the future of journalism will be a hybrid future where traditional media players embrace the ways of new…

— Arianna Huffington

They just love to complain about me because I'm an American who gets more press than their Canadian players.

— Jeremy Roenick

Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding…

— Kobe Bryant

So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s…

— Andre Iguodala

I'm an attacking player - I prefer left wing, right wing. They're quite even for me.

— Michail Antonio

The team is the star, never an individual player.

— John Wooden

Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.

— Ronaldinho

I've always been a physical player.

— Jahlil Okafor

I figure I'm a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I've accomplished is just a scam.

— Marty Stuart

Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I…

— Ian Callaghan

Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is…

— Bill Belichick

I saw a survey and it is that NFL fans are fed up with listening to players talk about politics.

— Rush Limbaugh

I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to…

— Mario Balotelli

Once the world sees this Synagogue of Satan as it really is and knows the players, they fear what will happen to…

— Louis Farrakhan

I want to be the best player in the league, but also the best player in the world.

— Breanna Stewart

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

— Brian Setzer

As a player, you want to win every game. That's what footballers do: they want to play, and they want to win.

— Jordan Henderson

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the…

— Frank Lampard

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Shawn Kemp was the player that I grew up watching, when he was with the SuperSonics.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good…

— Josh Lucas

I'm kind of a purist and I actually just want to be a good player, with that said though... I probably should…

— The Rocket Summer

I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain…

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group

— Jeff Van Gundy

When you have the best player on you, you want to score: yes or yes.

— Luka Doncic

I have always felt like a Liverpool player.

— Harry Wilson

It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football…

— Paul Gigot

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

— Kevin Durant

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early…

— Clive James

Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.

— Henry Iba

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics,…

— Nikki Giovanni

I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was…

— Anonymous

No former player has owned a team in baseball.

— Derek Jeter

I think that my career speaks for itself and shows the type of player I am. I have never had a teammate…

— Chris Webber

You never want that attached to you as a player. You don't want to be attached to being injury-prone.

— Kevin Huerter