Player Quotes · Page 85

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move…

— Landon Donovan

I always got great respect as a bass player.

— Bill Wyman

I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like,…

— Nick Offerman

All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.

— Carlos Moya

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

— Julius Erving

I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is…

— Anonymous

In a Game Community, the rules and officials decide if the players are good enough to play. If not, they change players.…

— Bernie De Koven

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

— Larry Bird

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

— Ann Wilson

Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their…

— David Stern

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach…

— John Calipari

Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of…

— William Stanley Jevons

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to be the best player to ever play this game.

— Adrian Peterson

A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've…

— Ryan Lochte

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get…

— Leo Durocher

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the…

— Steve Spurrier

Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say.…

— Kevin Durant

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you…

— Steve Nash

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even…

— Arthur Dean

This guy from L.A. sits down next to me, and he says 'you like baseball?' I said, 'Oh, man, I love baseball.'…

— Bill Engvall

Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played…

— Phil Jackson

Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game…

— Lionel Messi

My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.

— Leander Paes

Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.

— Dylan Smith

I'm just a player who tries to play.

— Ruben Dias

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel…

— Michel Patini

I want to be the best player I can be.

— Ken Griffey Jr

How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the…

— Gerald Cohen

I've always felt like the most improvement you can make is from year 1 to year 2, much like a college freshman…

— Jim Harbaugh

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the…

— Novak Djokovic

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one…

— Steven Tyler

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like…

— Anonymous

It wasn't until I was about 16 that I began to grow and develop as a player.

— Jaap Stam

Get your players on who can unlock the door and sooner or later they will break the door down

— Tim Sherwood

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

— Marsha Warfield

I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We…

— Luis Tiant

I was a better hockey player than I was a baseball player.

— Jarome Iginla

This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.

— Javier Clemente