Quotes About Player

I always give respect to and pay homage to New York, because I don't feel like I would be the player that I am today if it wasn't for New York City. It gives you a certain edge, a certain toughness just growing up in the city.

If there's a good player in New York City, he needs to come to St. John's if he wants to play the best basketball.

Ronaldo? He is the most dangerous player at Real. It is hard to stop him, like Messi, because both score a lot of goals, and you never know what is going to be the next thing they will invent for scoring.

As a player I think you naturally think long term and think what is the schedule in the next year or so.

Wilf is a great passer of the ball. I know him and I played with him from the Under-17s team with Nigeria, so he's a very good passer.

Johnny Giles is my favourite Leeds player, without doubt. He was a fierce competitor. I met him once, at a black-tie event in Dublin, which was one of the great nights of my life.

I enjoy some nights in the studio. I'm not the greatest person in an enclosed space; I'm a live player by birth - like a gypsy folk player, I just sit in the corner and play.

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

A player-led team is better than a coach-led team, no doubt.

Cristiano is one of the best players of all-time - there's no doubt about it.

I've got no interest in justifying myself to a player of mine.

There is no point going man-to-man with a player of Messi's ability. He is so clever he would drag your player all over the pitch and still find a way to destroy you, probably exploiting the hole you've left by assigning someone to that role.

An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.

odies al jugador; odia el juego.

I figured I'd spend my first thousand years of Hell in some entry-level position, but after that I wanted to move into management. Be a real team player. Hell is going to see enormous growth in market share over the next millennium. I wanted to ride the crest. The agent said that sounded pretty realistic.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

Since] a player controls every character, it is that player's intelligence that dictates the character's goals and actions, not an arbitrary number on a character sheet. Thus, in a sense, the player _is_ the character's "intelligence score"!

The essential task for a defenseman in his own end is to not allow an offensive player room to create, and to force that player into doing things he doesn't want to do with the puck.

The aforementioned "active stick"—besides being an essential achievement in the Eddie Olczyk NBC broadcaster drinking game—describes what the defenseman needs to do with his twig when taking on an attacker. It should always be on the ice, always in motion, always seeking to be as close to the shooter's blade as possible.

The secret is in the details and in observing a lot. You have to pay a great deal of attention, constantly, to what happens every day, more so than to the weekend's game: we are always aware of every aspect, of a player's moods, their expressions, of thousands of almost unfathomable things that could make a difference. Observation is key.

There is not a single trainer, nor player, that can guarantee success at the start of a season,' Guardiola wrote a decade ago. 'Nor are there magic formulae. If there were, this game of football would be as easy as going to the "solutions shop" and buying them all.

Failure is when a player does not have a good training session, when the coach relaxes and stops caring, when the team doesn't care either about whatever is going on,' Manel Estiarte said.

You get the player, based on what we need, and I will make it work,' has always been his take on signings.

Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.