Browsing Topic Best Player Quotes

Is hockey hard? I don’t know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh yeah, did I mention that this whole time we’re standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don’t know, you tell me. Next question.

Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team’s style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.

Rahul Dravid is a player who would walk on broken glass if his team asks him to

If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.

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

I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I’ll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.

Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band’s guitar player, Tom Morello.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

Frank Sinatra turns 100 this year and his music has been a major player in the soundtrack of my life. So it’s only right that I return the favor and pay it forward.

When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player…now it’s my turn to laugh.

When we have the football, everybody’s a player.

This will be my first Grand Slam final without Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic on the other side of the net, but I don’t think being the more experienced player will make much difference to my approach.

I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it’s a lesser player, but it’s all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification. You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.

I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.

I think every player should think that he’s a difference maker.

I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.

It’s a pretty sure thing that the player’s bat is what speaks loudest when it’s contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is – as a person as well as a player. You’ve got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.

What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

I believe in my heart I’m the best player in the world. I’m just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I’m just confident in my ability to play ball.

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless…. We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That’s our passion here.

Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.

Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along.