Players Quotes

Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.

I want players who are always striving to improve.

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.

I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

The players must be at the centre of their industry.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night.

It's important we win and because of the players we have we should win some matches in style.