Players Quotes

Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever.

It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It's hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

We spent a lot of money on some players.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

Most players in this league say they want consistency.

My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.

Football players win football games.

We, as a league, must do a better job of protecting the integrity of the game and the safety of our players.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.