Player Quotes

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

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

It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.

A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

Every football player knows when his time is up.

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.

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

All I wanted to be was a player.

Then I want to beat Anthony Davis' shot-block record, and I want to win National Player of the Year. I definitely plan to put the work in to accomplish those goals.

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.

I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm definitely looking at my options and considering going overseas.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.