Player Quotes

It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

When it was time for a player to go, he went.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

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

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

I was surprised I won the award because I've always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I'm an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.

It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

My journey as a player is complete.

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.

Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.