Player Quotes

I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.

I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

We will always make sure player health and safety is our No. 1 priority in the NFL.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.