Player Quotes

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.

The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

Everything that happens to you, I feel like it helps you develop as a person, as a player.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

I'd like to be a piano player.

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

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

I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.

The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player.

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.