Player Quotes · Page 150

For a young player, the most important thing is to play.

— Nemanja Matic

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick…

— Bill Bruford

The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

— Lord Byron

Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games…

— Tim Harford

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes…

— Novak Djokovic

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like…

— Tippi Hedren

Good ball players make good citizens.

— Grover Cleveland

I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.

— Alex Ferguson

I never experimented with the hoddu like I wanted to do. Like on the song "Allah Addu," the hoddu and the voice…

— Baaba Maal

Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win.

— Red Auerbach

Through a lot of conversations with the Minister [Louis Farrakhan] you've got to know when to say something. But if you are…

— Steve Harvey

A player who isn't playing football isn't ready for the international team.

— Oliver Burke

For best results, the competitive player should never depart from his area of expertise

— John Train

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar…

— Ian Anderson

...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for…

— Brad Paisley

The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning…

— Israel Albert Horowitz

When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do.…

— Pele

Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want…

— LeBron James

we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and…

— Gene Tierney

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for…

— Anatoly Karpov

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

— Oscar Robertson

The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote…

— Jahangir Khan

A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The…

— Pete Carril

Ive had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise Ive been incredibly lucky with my fitness. Ive worked hard at it and…

— Graeme Le Saux

I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

— Ndamukong Suh

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's…

— Mark Steyn

The player had almost as much fun as the parent and coaches. This league is well worth the time the professionals put…

— Casey Barnes

Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates

— Bernd Schuster

I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.

— Harmon Killebrew

As part of the process, there are a lot of different ways to evaluate players. There are a number of different companies…

— Bill Belichick

I see myself as a player for whom there are no limits.

— Marco Reus

I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up…

— David Bowie

As a player for the team, you get inside scoops from your GMs and owners.

— Domantas Sabonis

I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the (World) Series.

— Rickey Henderson

Coaches win practices, players win games

— Pete Carril

Ronaldo could play for Millwall, QPR, Doncaster Rovers or anyone and he'd score a hat-trick. I'm not sure Messi could do it.…

— Alex Ferguson

We want playing our games to entertain people on many different levels. Deeper down, I want to make a connection with the…

— Tim Schafer

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

— Marcel Duchamp