Quotes About Players

The first elimination round I like to call 'the elimination round,' because it is the round in which players will be eliminated.

Of Simon Templar it could truly be said that to him all the world was a stage, and all the men and women merely players in an endless comedy drama designed for his especial entertainment and incidentally his cut at the box office.

You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes.

As far as the bowl games, I don't think the players really play for that. Not at USC.

There is no difference between the way we see basketball; the way we execute is a little bit different. The way he uses his right shoulder, drop-step to his left hand, is a thing of beauty. There is no doubt in my mind that Pau will be a Hall of Famer because of what he brought to the game, and there's no such players like him anymore.

Players that have had less minutes on the pitch compared to the usual starting XI will naturally concede more chances.

In an All-Star game the players are having more fun than usual and showing their personalities more than usual. And there are guys in this game - I'm not one of them - who are historically good. First-ballot Hall of Famers.

For me, the timing has been good, but I also feel very lucky to be playing in Utah. We have a good team with tremendous players who like to win.

If the spectators demand from the players that they do their utmost and score goals, the players shouldn't question this.

When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.

Basketball is basketball, so from a strategic standpoint, having a players' perspective is valuable.

The most important thing for me is to value the players and try to improve them individually in order to improve the team.

Football players value job security and stability as much anybody else.

Often, players talk when they feel they are not being valued as they deserve. Then they get more attention.

I've always valued more where I work for and the fans and the current players than what the national perception is of me.

If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.

You can't keep changing managers. Every time the players have to adapt to a new strategy and the thinking of the new manager, which is really difficult and takes time.

One of the things I think has been important for Blizzard is maintaining the direct relationship with our players. Having a platform that we owned and controlled was important for that strategy, and also to not be dependent on other publishers.

Almost every football player played on the streets. And also, a lot of people not ending up as football players play on the streets. It's the beginning of a lot of social gathering.

The more allrounders you have, the more difficult it becomes for the opposition. The reason being, if you have players who can bat and bowl, and if they are proper allrounders - they may be spinning or fast-bowling allrounders - they add to the strength of the team.

Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.