Player Quotes

When your best player's working harder than everybody and holding everyone accountable, that's a winning culture.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen.

The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

A good coach will make his players see what they can become rather than what they are.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is.

A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back.

The great champions have all come back from defeat.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left.

If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

If someone asks me a question, that says they appreciate what I do and that's nice. And I know what it was like when I was a kid to want to interact with a top player.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player.

It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing.

.. and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it.

It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.

After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.

I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic;

it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose.

And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

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.

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.

One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

Most games put the player in the role of Luke Skywalker, this protagonist playing through this story. Really, this is more about putting the player in the role of George Lucas.

[The first MP3 player] was a big Christmas hit, because what little hoodlum wouldn't want a million and a half bucks-worth of stolen goods in his pocket?

[Twenty-first-century arts festivals] ask the audience to be a player, a protagonist, a partner, rather than a passive spectator.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing.

It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.