Quotes About Player

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

No, haven't seen him, haven't talked to him. You know, those relationships are always ... they're not always warm and fuzzy and it wasn't warm and fuzzy with Bill, but I'm glad I got a chance to play for him, particularly when I was a young player. But the end of the deal down there in Dallas, wasn't ... it wasn't super friendly.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about your pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what's happening here, and the decisions we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.

As a professional player, I consider my career closed, but I don't want to exclude the possibility in the future that I may return, but not as a player.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

I don't say I'm necessarily a professional football player. I'm a competitor. That's what was instilled in me as a young boy.

The profile is to find if someone can perform in the Championship and help you win, and also play in the Premier League because that has to be the goal.

In order to maximize your profits at the poker table, your goal should be to play completely opposite of the way other players at the table perceive you. Simply put, if opponents label you a conservative player who never bluffs and only plays premium hands, you'll do better playing aggressively and bluffing frequently.

People think I got loads of money at City and then left for Chelsea to chase more money. I didn't get that money. I moved to Chelsea because they made promises to me. They told me I would get opportunities, I would play and that they believed in me as a young player.

I won promotion four times as a player, and I'm not going to deny I would enjoy another one as a manager, but you can ask any of the clubs I went up with and they will tell you the same. My focus was always dead calm, always on the next game.

I think the No. 9 will always be in football. You need the proper No. 9s in football; that's my opinion.

I was a beat-the-system sort of player, but you can't beat the system, you have to prepare properly.

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

It's an exciting prospect playing in the NBA, one that every player wants. When you are little you dream about it.

I'm very happy at Huddersfield, it's a great club for me and I'm proud to be a Huddersfield player.

The best player I've played with would be Graeme Swann, just because he's proved that regular finger-spinners can take wickets in international cricket for England.

I would like to ask, Should not a player who has played 12 to 13 years for his country deserves a farewell match?

I think I feel good as a South African player that people say that we always get into semifinal and lose... this is one of the biggest achievements to get into semifinal. Not many teams do that. For me, it's a real achievement.

I think it's very difficult to have fewer opportunities to have success and still execute. My favorite player was Barry Bonds, and he got so few opportunities.