Player Quotes · Page 154

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

— Gabrielle Reece

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

— Nomar Garciaparra

All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different.

— Maria Kirilenko

By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably…

— Walter Isaacson

Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.

— Rafael van der Vaart

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make…

— Kevin Keegan

The caliber of play in professional football compared to college is better and everybody knows it. They don't realize how much better.…

— Marv Levy

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

— Paul McCartney

During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His…

— Sherry Thomas

I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

— Hines Ward

Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose…

— Don Yaeger

The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation…

— Roger Milla

We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other…

— Karl Barry Sharpless

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there…

— Retief Goosen

From what I've read, Gen Z largely favors players over teams and that's one of the reasons it's so important to showcase…

— Trevor Bauer

I think I have a newfound respect for what my parents did, to create two players - one who was really good…

— Patrick McEnroe

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

— William Alexander

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

— Jimmy Iovine

I'm a very versatile player.

— Danilo Gallinari

As I was a kid, I had a bunch of musicians, they always told me that I should listen to all styles…

— Troy Andrews

You always want to be able to convey items of interest, items that make the fan see what's happening, help them in…

— Hubie Brown

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

— Ernie Harwell

“Don't hate the game, hate the player... the player should have known better than to play the game in the first place.”

— Nyki Mack

There are loads of players I could name who are 16-16 looked like world beaters but then at 21-22 they are subs…

— Rio Ferdinand

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

— Doc Rivers

The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game.…

— Frank Leahy

Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the…

— Samantha Stosur

Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a…

— Rafe Esquith

I don't [know] what everybody else's motives are, I don't know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real…

— Kevin Durant

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

— Rafael Benitez

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us…

— Wayne Rooney

I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.

— Alex Ferguson

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

— Arsene Wenger

I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.

— Ichiro Suzuki

A player should never be selfish and should always contribute to team's victory.

— Shahid Afridi

If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit…

— Yogi Berra

I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the…

— Dikembe Mutombo

There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that…

— Toby Keith

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

— Juliana Hatfield

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob…

— Bill Veeck