Player Quotes · Page 143

When you're a player, you want the manager to know your quality and to want you.

— Samir Nasri

Like every other player, I want to play.

— Gylfi Sigurdsson

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all…

— Sherman Alexie

I was full of confidence in myself that I would reach the top or be a professional player as a midfielder.

— Georginio Wijnaldum

Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever…

— Franz Beckenbauer

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said…

— Judit Polgar

I've been patient with everything - management, coaches, players - but I want to play. I think I took my time eating…

— Charles Oakley

The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date…

— William C. Rhoden

The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying…

— Robert Hunter

That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player,…

— Ryan Guzman

I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a…

— Bill Walton

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they here.

— Red Auerbach

His passion was the Galaxy. In retrospect, it's fitting that we won a championship for him this last year because I think…

— Steve Sampson

No player puts the team on their back.

— Julen Lopetegui

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

— Andrew Dominik

Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of…

— John Kessel

Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board,…

— Graham Roberts

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me…

— Glenn Tipton

I do feel like I improved as a player.

— Daniel Jones

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

— Sally Ride

The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the…

— Tina Brown

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

— Doug Collins

How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.

— Brett Hull

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

— Elvin Hayes

I hope somebody falls in love with me - other than my fiancee. But that's what you want. As a player you…

— Robert Griffin III

Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player.

— Anthony Jeselnik

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

— Bradley Whitford

If you are a professional player and you are playing in the top professional league, you are sorted financially, which is good.

— Sunil Chhetri

Most of the players in the league use marijuana, and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason sometimes.

— Josh Howard

We know that Pepe is a great player.

— Casemiro

If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

— Helen Wills

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

— Bobby Fischer

I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat…

— Jack Nicklaus

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my…

— Pauline Oliveros

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while,…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

I know Billy Bonds quite well and he is a fantastic person and was a fantastic player.

— Mark Noble

For me, Marouane Fellaini has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League over the last few seasons. If he…

— David Moyes

19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest…

— Romain Edouard