Quotes on Player

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

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

We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.