Player Quotes · Page 62

I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.

— Charles Haley

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be…

— Terry Bradshaw

I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's…

— Eamon

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

— Doc Rivers

I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs…

— John C. Reilly

Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule…

— Craig Brown

I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Michael Vick is my favorite player.

— Lamar Jackson

I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.

— Mike Holder

I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist,…

— Paul Banks

I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

— Alan Greenspan

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

— Red Auerbach

As a player you just concentrate on your game.

— Nicolas Anelka

I'm not a great piano player.

— Norah Jones

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

— George Allen

I'll never say a player doesn't deserve to be on the all-star team.

— Bradley Beal

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

— John Malkovich

The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are…

— Joe Namath

I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic…

— Patrick Murray

As a player, it's important to focus on the here and now.

— Jos Buttler

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

— Mark E. Hyman

A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to…

— Sparky Anderson

I dont see gold as a player in a healthy economy.

— Arnon Milchan

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

— Constance Jablonski

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of…

— Alexis Korner

I don't look like the stereotypical darts player, do I?

— Fallon Sherrock

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't…

— Gabe Polsky

I was talking to the great Armen Ra, the world's most renowned theremin player, and he told me, "I don't trust old…

— Sharon Needles

If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe…

— Jose Mourinho

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino.…

— Jack Nicklaus

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

— Whitey Herzog

We have to remember Damien Duff is one of the most good players in the Premiership

— Frank Stapleton

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players..

— Anonymous

It's also very important to make sure that the main character and the player are completely in synch.

— Sam Lake

Dhoni backs players as well. People like (Suresh) Raina, (Ravindra) Jadeja, and Rohit Sharma have developed under him as players and has…

— Sourav Ganguly

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a…

— Jon Gordon

It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is…

— Joe Garagiola

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

— John Kruk

I think that the Brazilian football is one of the best in the world. It still is and still struggles for this.…

— Neymar

I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His…

— Keith Jarrett