Player Quotes · Page 26

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

— Bill Parcells

IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous.

— Alastair Cook

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

— Branch Rickey

The offseason is critical for any young player.

— Tom Thibodeau

I've always worked hard at being a well-rounded player.

— Jalen Rose

As a football player, I don't play for the individual.

— Romelu Lukaku

I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.

— Matt Sharp

The money players are on these days is immoral, but you can't knock it

— Neil Warnock

The greatest player in the world. He's got a fantastic vision of the game, and what he can do technically - it's…

— Nicklas Bendtner

It's a privilege for us, Portugal, to have a player like Cristiano Ronaldo.

— Pepe

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

— Wayne Gretzky

Every day, my purpose was not to just be the best at my position, but be the best player on the field.…

— Darrelle Revis

Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.

— Michael Douglas

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my…

— Ryan Lochte

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in…

— Eduard Gufeld

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will…

— Bill Bradley

Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand…

— Dave Mustaine

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or…

— Chris Moneymaker

It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the…

— Robbie Fowler

Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay…

— Bill Lee

I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to…

— Robbie Fowler

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's…

— Charlemagne Palestine

My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's…

— Steve Nash

Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially…

— Philip Jenkins

The capacity for "uncontaminated wonder," ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from…

— Warren G. Bennis

The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date…

— William C. Rhoden

You're not going to tell me that you're going to find a person who's not a very good athlete and he or…

— Jack Nicklaus

I have a big TV screen and I sit there and watch the Premier League and I get angry sometimes - 'I'm…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

When I see Mario Gotze, his development does not go in the right direction. He has outstanding qualities, but he has not…

— Michael Ballack

As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes,…

— Tom Hiddleston

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with…

— Ray Brown

No player can represent Sri Lanka in future without good fitness levels

— Sanath Jayasuriya

I'm not a player! I'm the girlfriend type! I always have girlfriends.

— Kevin Connolly

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

— Anonymous

There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.

— Brendan Mundorf

Competition makes every player better.

— Hakim Ziyech

My mom is a former volleyball player.

— Grigor Dimitrov

You can't rely on one player on the international level.

— Marcel Desailly

I just wanted to be as good of a basketball player as I could.

— Lauri Markkanen