Player Quotes

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

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

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.

No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.

I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

A happy player is a good player, I think.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

I'm the type of player I am.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.