Quotes About Player

In Europe, matches are different because you play a lot on a one-on-one basis. There's less tactical importance in the Champions League. The value of the individual player makes the difference.

I have evolved a lot as a player working with Klopp, who is a very tactical coach.

I always got on well with Roberto Mancini and never had a problem with him. Every manager has their own way of working, tactics, and style of play. As a player, you do what the manager says. There are misunderstandings, but generally, everything was fine under Mancini.

With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn't speak with me about tactics.

The franchise tag, it's a one-year deal. I would like a little bit more stability.

I wish they could do away with the franchise tag.

I was tagged early as the prototypical white player, the guy with the intangibles - the smart player, the guy who did all the right things.

Managers are under pressure and maybe don't want to take a chance on a young player.

When you're a player, you've got to protect your investment, and that's you. Take the best opportunity you can to be ready to play, and then go out and compete and take advantage of it.

You're moving a franchise. You're leaving one city and going to another, which is difficult from a fan standpoint, from a fan-base standpoint, but you have to take care of the detail things. As you go through that step-by-step process, from my standpoint, my job is to keep in mind the player needs.

A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.

In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.

I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.

I hate to say it's not a Laker but Michael Jordan. He's been the greatest player I've ever seen. And I'm probably a harsh judge of talent in the sense that I admire players that are really good defensive players and really good offensive players.

Balotelli is not my role model. I like him as a player very much, and he is very talented. He could have been at the very top, but my style does not have anything with him.

Eden Hazard would be a perfect signing for Real Madrid, not only for his talents as a player but also as a leader.

Shevchenko was always the favourite player for me. He was my idol. When we met, we exchanged shirts and talked for a while. It was great.

I talked to Grant Hill, and I told him, 'I played against you a lot, and now, hopefully, I'm getting to coach a player like you. Jabari has the opportunity to be a special player in this league. But it's not handed to you. He's going to work, and our jobs are to make him better each day.'

Nobody talks about Shaq Thompson. I don't know what he is. He's like a nickel corner/linebacker.

Contract year isn't what everyone else talks about. For a player, it's just another year in the league.

The Italian Fabio Cannavaro, who was with Real Madrid when I played against him several times, was the best player in the world in 2006. He wasn't tall, but very quick and strong. He always knew his opponents well, as if he'd researched them.

I played a lot of right field with Tampa.

He held up a DVD in a blue cardboard envelope, which bore Pete's distinctive scrawl. "Can't believe the technology." "If I have a good Christmas I'll buy myself a DVD player. Still have a year of car payments left." She paused. "Prices keep coming down.

Occasionally, he left the compound. I'd figured he must be out hunting, at least some of the time, but he hadn't returned with a new icon, and I'd heard nothing on Arcana Radio. Plus, Lark's laminated player list—the little twit actually did keep it on the fridge door—had had no updates since the Star. Well, other than her scratching my title out and scribbling in "The Unclean One." Har.