Quotes on Player

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.

They'll forget all the rubbish when I've gone, and they'll remember the football. If only one person thinks I'm the best player in the world, that's good enough for me.

I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.

To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does.

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?

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.