Player Quotes · Page 80

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

— Sammy Hagar

He's a player you only miss when he's not playing

— Graham Taylor

American field players would really help themselves if they were exposed to a steady stream of box experience. Box lacrosse is an…

— Dom Starsia

To be a great player, you have to affect the entire unit.

— Nick Saban

I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in…

— Taraji P. Henson

God is a snooker player, that's why all the planets are turning!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

— Dave Navarro

Perform drills that force your players to think

— Bobby Knight

On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my…

— Hale Irwin

Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.…

— Simon Barnes

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've…

— Graig Nettles

The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team…

— Jack Welch

If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money.…

— William Eckhardt

We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over…

— Walter Truett Anderson

I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further…

— Pau Gasol

I know there are a lot of people who believe in me as a player and a person, and I don't want…

— Tim Tebow

Get your education. The number of guys who are blessed to be in the league is so small compared to the number…

— Tim Duncan

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

— Mickey Mantle

Every player wants to play at the highest level.

— Romelu Lukaku

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all…

— Pete Carroll

When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that…

— Donald Dunn

When I played with Michael Jordan on the Olympic team, there was a huge gap between his ability and the ability of…

— Steve Alford

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and…

— Kevin Garnett

A game that a lot of critics like is not necessarily a game that enough players like to be able to make…

— Steve Gaynor

Look at the NBA players back when Magic and Kareem played in the early 80's with the short shorts, look at what…

— Tiger Woods

Everybody has a role on the team, and some have a role as a scout team player. They have to emulate the…

— Barry Alvarez

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other.…

— Bobby Fischer

Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit…

— John Kessel

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

— John McGraw

We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

— Joe Dumars

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

— Marcus Allen

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

— Anatoly Karpov

But people don't know if I can teach the game. I know I can. My experience in Oklahoma was positive. It opened…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I always worked to be the best player.

— Carlos Vela

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

— Jackie Mason

Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.

— Norm Sloan

As a young player, you can't always have positives.

— Joshua Kimmich

I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.

— Sam Snead

I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.

— John Salley

I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps…

— Bobby Knight