Player Quotes · Page 88

I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis…

— Roger Federer

I learned a hell of a lot from my co-star, Kurt Russell. He's one of my closest friends and was one of…

— Tim Matheson

I don't know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very…

— Tony Fernandes

I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just…

— Chris Davis

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

— William Hazlitt

I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once…

— Bob Uecker

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

— Derek Bailey

I am not that far away from becoming the No. 1 player in the world. I am only around 1,000 points away…

— Juan Carlos Ferrero

Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing…

— Roy Keane

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.

— Johan Cruijff

I bet a chef could get more pussy than a guitar player right now.

— Roy Choi

You can't really take a vinyl record player on a plane so you're not going to have the same experience, but if…

— Brendon Urie

All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player.

— Jon Gruden

I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until…

— Paul Auster

Some guys, football comes really easy to them; they can see what all 22 players are doing, can see what all 11…

— Bill Belichick

I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do…

— John Wooden

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

— Pete Gill

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

— Billy Corgan

I wasn't planning on being a guitar player; I was going to be a singer. And I was for a little bit…

— Steve Jones

Of course I have the odd bad game like other players. But I can't accept that. Especially when things don't go right…

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

— Zinedine Zidane

From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are…

— Yuvraj Singh

The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.

— Moses Malone

Because [Russel Westbrook] is so rare and impacts the game in so many different ways, you see the usage and the amount…

— Russell Westbrook

Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to…

— Patrick Roy

It seems like teams want a guy who can get 10, 11, 12 assists. That's the kind of player I want to…

— Deron Williams

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

— Bobby Baldwin

You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great…

— Brett Favre

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he…

— James Whistler

They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every…

— Bobby Fischer

My favorite sport is football. I'm a die hard Steelers fan. Favorite players were Hines Ward and Greg Lloyd.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Injuries are a part and parcel of a player's career.

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA…

— Red Auerbach

My job is, as a player, to go out here and do my job.

— Kyle Lowry

It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling…

— Anonymous

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

— Carlos Delgado

It wasn't a popular thing to be a professional poker player in the '80s.

— Phil Hellmuth

You measure a player from the head up.

— Al McGuire

My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football…

— Chad Harbach

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

— Mark Teixeira