Quotes About Player

You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

I think Hazard influences the team so much that anywhere he goes you have to give him the ball.

Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.

It's always bad news when a player gets injured - dreadful news.

You can't fault a player because he got injured.

It's impossible for one player to play the whole year. I've learnt that myself, and you're always bound to get injuries.

I would like to see a rule change - or at least a discussion around the issue - where you can have an injury timeout but then you lose a point. I think it needs something to make players consider if they really need the timeout.

When you put something on Instagram, the English people are always so positive. As a player, you need that.

Arjen Robben, for instance, is a good player, and he helped me a lot with the international team.

Being an instinctive player is great but there's time in the past where I've let how I'm playing at the time affect me, thinking I can play some big shots and I'd be alright.

I was a flamboyant player when I started playing First Class cricket. I used to just back my instincts and go with the flow.

When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player. Something like 'Aheym' is very virtuosic - but because I have a history of performing music, I don't like unplayable music.

No, I didn't expect Mancini to become a manager, because of the type of player he was - he was an intelligent player, of course, but I didn't think he had the desire to become a manager. But I guess if you speak to some of my team-mates they'd probably say they didn't expect me to either. I certainly didn't expect it.

Xabi Alonso is a very, very intelligent and experienced player with an enormous personality.

Anybody who has played with Mesut will tell you how intelligent he is as a player. His vision is probably the best I have ever seen and that is why it is so important to have the right striker ahead of him.

Ibrahimovic is a very intelligent player and there are very few strikers like him in world football.

For most developers, that kind of situation - a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend - to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.

I think if you show a player an avenue to make a difference, he's going to bring that same intensity he brings on the field in his community.

Of course, we create a lot of heroes. But the real intention of that is to make the player feel like a hero in all of our games.

I'm probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic to see what happens.

We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

He was simply the most intelligent football player I ever saw. If I had one player to choose, out of all of them, to save my life, he'd be the one.