Player Quotes

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.

You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.

I couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.

Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

I was always a closet blues player.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

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

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

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

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.