Player Quotes · Page 256

I was an average football player in college.

— Howie Long

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for…

— Leo Tolstoy

I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave…

— Kevin Ollie

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game,…

— Jose Mourinho

A team is a group of players who support one another on court and who think of the group before they think…

— K. C. Jones

I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as…

— John Petrucci

I always stress condition with my basketball players. I don’t mean physical condition only. You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless…

— John Wooden

People compare me to Batistuta, and he is the player I base myself on.

— Mauro Icardi

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the…

— Jamal Lewis

Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

— Brian Bosworth

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

— Wes Montgomery

A quality player is a quality player.

— Sam Allardyce

That's why we all play the game. You want to be a player; you want to be out there to play.

— Jimmy Garoppolo

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

— Bobby Knight

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

— David Sanborn

Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

— Dave Barry

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

— Julian Fellowes

The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported…

— Jurgen Klinsmann

What makes LSU is the environment and the fans and those guys wearing the jerseys. They're really good players.

— Urban Meyer

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary…

— Paul Gascoigne

I have played ODIs and T20Is but when someone calls you a Test player, it is a different feeling all together.

— Yuzvendra Chahal

It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is…

— Wynton Marsalis

I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her." "Well, I…

— Amanda Hocking

That is the aim for every player, to play at the highest level possible.

— Ollie Watkins

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

— Al McGuire