Player Quotes · Page 97

I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later…

— Scott Brooks

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

— Alexander Gordon Smith

Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's…

— James Surowiecki

Well, to have some teams come at you like Montreal did, it’s definitely flattering, and I think it was good for me…

— Brandon Prust

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar…

— Gary Burton

I'm going to be a big-time player.

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

— John Mayer

I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell…

— Rick Nielsen

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a…

— Jackie Collins

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

— Ray Stevens

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes…

— Junior Seau

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

— Jim Brown

Paolo Maldini is neither a legend nor a world class player!

— Carlton Palmer

It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to…

— Ray Lewis

Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical…

— Paolo Di Canio

I need players to start thinking for themselves.

— Guus Hiddink

I think I'm the best player in the world.

— Micah Parsons

Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able…

— Warren Spector

I consider myself more of a hybrid player than just a fullback.

— Glenn Gronkowski

He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

— Alex Ferguson

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

— Brent Weeks

I don't have any [specific] intelligence about a Vice-Disney deal, but I do know that everybody's nervous about these emerging players, who…

— Maria Bartiromo

It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you…

— Willie Mason

Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost…

— Marat Safin

Phil Jackson would fight his own players in practice.

— Marv Albert

Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know…

— Matt Bahr

I want to become a main player, a main-eventer, a headliner - whatever. I have all that's needed to do that.

— R-Truth

Deco is a very skillful player. He thinks very fast on the pitch.

— Robinho

Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking…

— Diego Maradona

I definitely feel like I'm a smarter player than when I first entered the League.

— Connor McDavid

Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15…

— Johan Cruijff

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport.…

— Arsene Wenger

I think all of us enjoy the feeling of something that goes on and on, as listeners as much as players. Just…

— Ira Kaplan

The NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL.

— Alexander Ovechkin

As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style…

— Arsene Wenger

The question is, do we have a shadow government? And, if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is -- that…

— Glenn Beck

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be…

— Ricky Williams

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

— Danny Strong

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a…

— Nolan Ryan

There is crisis in Europe, where Russia is the principle intriguer and player, which affects a major source of international business and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski