Player Quotes · Page 40

If you play in Holland, you aren't recognized as a very good player.

— Frank de Boer

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of…

— Pele

It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.

— Craig Benzine

[ Won the 2015 African Player of the Year]meant everything to me. It was the first time a footballer from Gabon was…

— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

I know I'm a great player.

— Joe Thornton

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

— Cameron Sinclair

I think Thespis just wanted to be a solo player, you know?

— Diana Rigg

How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

— Johnny Giles

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

— Maria Sharapova

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

— John McEnroe

The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to…

— Bob Toski

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

— Tina Brown

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or…

— Frank Deford

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

— Ely Culbertson

I'm really not an injury-prone player. I just had that one injury that took, like, two years.

— Joel Embiid

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media…

— Jim Leyland

Anybody can be good when things are going good, but a real player steps up when things are going bad.

— Daunte Culpepper

Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be…

— Philip Zimbardo

Ronaldinho is total class - a very, very great player. He is quick, powerful, and has extraordinary technical qualities. He is a…

— Zinedine Zidane

I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player.…

— Michael Owen

Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their…

— Timothy Gallwey

What I found interesting about Slava Fetisov was that he went through three different generations of Soviet hockey. In the late 70's,…

— Gabe Polsky

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

— Andrew Dominik

I have grown a lot as a player and I have to thank Conte for helping in my development.

— Leonardo Bonucci

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. A great entertainer needs to have charisma.

— George Best