Players Quotes

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

India buzzes for its players and that makes you feel special.

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout.

We've got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop.

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.