Quotes About Players

I'd be lying if I said I never had any issues with players but at some point you have to stamp your authority because if you're good at taking free-kicks, for example, they should let you take them.

It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

It's almost like Time's Up allowed some really good old-school players to stand up and say, 'We're actually just really normal companies that want to facilitate culture-making. Some of us are even in it for the slow returns.'

The life was good in Qatar but I did not enjoy the football. For me, 12 months was enough. The standard was low, but not that low. It was OK but the ambition was not there from the players. It was like playing for nothing. I didn't like that feeling.

I try to challenge the players. If they have reached a standard I challenge them to grow even more because you never know.

Of course, becoming champions is something we all want, but I think that the best 'championship' for a manager is to see players like Koke, Lucas Hernandez, Angel Correa - lads who have come up from all the way down in the lower divisions - become professionals of a high standard.

I get asked constantly, what's Nintendo's approach to the esports community. And our approach is we want to enable consistent standards. We want to enable an approach to the competition that's fair, that's balanced, that enables the players to showcase their skills.

I just think, obviously as players, we're held to a higher standard. I've had to watch myself on that, but I think if we're held to higher standards, the owners should be held to even higher standards.

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

I love Coach Zimmer. He's a tough head coach who stands behind his players 100 percent.

When I can, I watch English games, and not only for the quality of the players on display. I'm hot-headed, and I love the passion that exudes from their packed stands.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

I'm from Denver, and basketball there isn't near what it is out in Chicago or Detroit or L.A. There weren't that many great players to come out of the area; I was the best player in high school. I was Player of the Year four straight years for the state. As a freshman, I was State Player of the Year; I was Mr. Everything, so I was a phenom.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

There is pressure, and I would never complain about that, but as players we put pressure on ourselves all the time. That's one thing I won't miss when I finally stop playing.

I aim to inspire a bunch of female guitar players to get out there and take it seriously and never give up.

You can never stop learning in football and I'm always trying to take little things on board that other players do.

Good players go into a season without a contract for the next year.

To be able to represent Nike as a brand is one thing, but to also represent the great players that came before me means a lot.

There is no doubt that not having Harry Kane and Son Heung-min will have an impact on your team.

As players we don't want to be sitting on the touchline or watching the games in the directors' box. That is no fun.

I think Totti would've had no problem playing in another big club. He's a born hitman, and great players always find a way to fit into a team.