Players Quotes

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.

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.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

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.

I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me.

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.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.

I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.