Quotes on Best Players

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player'.

I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world

All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.

Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

...I do not say, Don't play games or cricket and so forth. By all means play and enjoy them, giving thanks to Jesus for them. Only take care that games do not become an idol to you as they did to me. What good will it do to anybody in the next world to have been the best player that ever has been? And then think of the difference between that and winning souls for Jesus.

Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only comparison over time . . . played on the same courses for generations. All the best players are always there.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

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.

...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.

I wanted to the best player in the state - [the best] the area has ever seen. That's always been my goal. Guys like Elgin Baylor, Adrian Dantley and Dave Bing, it's tough to pass those guys. So I'm studying, working. My project's not over yet. Hopefully, I get there.