Player Quotes · Page 278

I didn't know if it was possible, but I wanted to some day be the highest paid Canadian player.

— Joey Votto

I'm a team player and that's all I worry about.

— Jose Calderon

One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax…

— Trevor Donovan

In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen — the most complete — is Scholes.…

— Xavi

Being a home-grown player, I achieved what I set out to do by playing and scoring for Barca. I consider I was…

— Bojan Krkic

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

— Graham Roberts

He's a fantastic player and he's going to be around so much longer so I'm happy with every one I get before…

— Rafael Nadal

It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and…

— Mark Teixeira

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the…

— Novak Djokovic

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

We absolutely need diversity [in game designers]. And not just diversity of gender, but diversity of cultures, of ethnicity, of sexuality. If…

— Brenda Romero

To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under…

— Garry Kasparov

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the…

— Frank Lampard

Every era of coaches has their own set of problems and challenges. Today's player is different, but some things about them are…

— Avery Johnson

I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had…

— Peter Beardsley

I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly.

— Andy Gray

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

— Tris Speaker

An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not.…

— Phil Jackson

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

— John Kessel

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

— Samuel Reshevsky

It is always easier when you have a big squad. You are not relying on one player.

— Andy Carroll

Teaching has definitely become a big part of my life in the past ten plus years. As it often does for many…

— Jon Gordon

Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to…

— Paul Bley

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

— Victor Cruz