Player Quotes · Page 140

NBA gets to see these players develop more..Did Lebron need another year, Did Kobe need another year

— Arn Tellem

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in…

— Eduard Gufeld

I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the…

— Brendan Rodgers

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

— Dean Smith

I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face…

— Luis Suarez

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players…

— Victor Borge

I know that Novak is a very tough player to beat, especially on the Slams.

— Andrey Rublev

It's not easy when you come in as the highest-paid player and you're 14.

— Freddy Adu

Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had…

— Deb Caletti

I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45…

— Jerry Reinsdorf

You walk in our locker room and you see Pau Gasol, you see Andrew Bynum, you see Kobe, you see Ron Artest…

— Lamar Odom

The success I had as a player, or the career I had as a player, is often based on the guys you…

— Russ Grimm

Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they…

— Steve Hamilton

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

— William Shakespeare

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids,…

— Rick Reilly

The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the…

— Samuel Johnson

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the…

— Joseph Heller

As a player you can have a bad game and come back for the next game. As a coach you really can't…

— John Starks

You can never guarantee the wins but you can guarantee that you give it 100%. That way you can always look back…

— Ivan Lendl

When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, "Well, football players are prone to these things - that's…

— Stanton Peele

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.

— Benji Marshall

Jameis Winston might be the most exciting player to watch in all of the NFL.

— Clay Travis

I don't judge my success in life as a football player.

— Tim Tebow

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional…

— Gary Burton

I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably…

— Timothy B. Schmit

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it…

— Don DeLillo

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow…

— Angela Ruggiero

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em?…

— Yogi Berra

A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they…

— Jim McDonough

I've had slumps before, every player has. It's not unusual.

— Xander Bogaerts

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

— Bill Parcells

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could…

— Nick Saban

I'm an awesome ping pong player.

— Al Horford

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more…

— Bear Bryant

So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in [Kirk] Cousins,…

— Bill Cowher

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

— Little Richard

You learn yourself, as a player, what you can handle at the plate, what you can't.

— Christian Yelich

I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that…

— Daniel Negreanu

Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player.

— Paul Pierce

Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if…

— Greg Chappell