Player Quotes · Page 232

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

— Phyllis Schlafly

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I…

— David Cone

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

— Xavi

When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?

— Anna Kournikova

In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up…

— Stephen Potter

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

— Terry Bradshaw

A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let…

— Albert Pujols

It's not easy, being the best at what he does but still having the humility and desire to be close to those…

— Javier Mascherano

Once he's on the run, Messi is unstoppable. He's the only player who can change direction at such a pace.

— Frank Rijkaard

Nobody - but nobody - has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then…

— Jack Nicklaus

Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural…

— Oscar Peterson

I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I…

— Ryne Sandberg

When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

— John Wooden

My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.

— Andruw Jones

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a…

— Keith Richards

Ernie Banks was a great great player and when he no longer could play, he became a great ambassador for the game.…

— Tommy Lasorda

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

— Vince Lombardi

It's the hardest thing for a young player to develop. At the same time a young player also has to deliver their…

— Jimmy Heath

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been…

— Mike Piazza

I don't want to be the guy that gets inspired by one player. I like to watch every player.

— Rudy Gobert

The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters and garnering…

— Dave Winfield

Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an…

— Pete Gill

I was a conservative kid, but I had fun. I was in a fraternity and stuff. I wasn't a player - that's…

— Matt Long

I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else.…

— Paul Brown

To this day I am not convinced of having brought together with me in Germany the technically best players that could have…

— Marcello Lippi