Player Quotes · Page 259

Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the…

— Brendan Shanahan

I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time…

— Robert Crumb

When another player screws up, I kind of erase it and make a good play.

— Bob Sanders

It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then…

— Guy Forget

There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the…

— Alfred Hitchcock

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain…

— Efim Geller

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

— Jean-Luc Godard

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

I've been on my grind to be the best player I can.

— Zach LaVine

Every player feels like they can play at this level. Not every player gets an opportunity. I was fortunate to get an…

— Dan Uggla

Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but dont be fooled, hes as slick as they come. A real player.…

— Rachael Harris

In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch.…

— Angela Merkel

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a…

— William Golding

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

— Alice Cooper

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead -…

— Danny Barker

There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable.…

— Daley Thompson

I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be…

— Dan Marino

I see someone like John Williams, the classical player, and the amount of discipline and the natural ability that man has is…

— Ritchie Blackmore

Russ Courtnall was my absolute favorite player. Patrick Roy was there, too, of course.

— Sami Zayn

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that…

— Joe Montana

I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I…

— Viswanathan Anand

I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I…

— Kevin Dillon

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

— Pierre Danos

There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I…

— Katie Uhlaender