Quotes About Players

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

You get confidence when you get on a roll. When you are not struggling, and you get your players back, it is bound to make everyone feel better about themselves.

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

Football has changed, and so has the relationship between the players on the pitch. Where once some players would try everything to distract opponents, now it's harder. There are TV cameras everywhere, which have much higher quality images than before. There are lip readers in studios working out what you are saying to each other.

Every business I don't know, if I spend enough time - a couple of months - I will know a lot. I know quite a lot about football now. I know the value of players, and we won't do stupid things.

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What's important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.

What I'm trying to say is that within the styles, first, there's something clear: the style is given by the players on the roster.

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.

Golf was once a rich man's sport, but now it has millions of poor players

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Great players inspire you. The best player I played with was Gervi (Gervinho)

My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world.

I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

Here's a typical list: Song of Solomon (for Michael Jordan), Things Fall Apart (Bill Cartwright), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (John Paxson), The Ways of White Folks (Scottie Pippen), Joshua: A Parable for Today (Horace Grant), Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (B.J. Armstrong), Way of the Peaceful Warrior (Craig Hodges), On the Road (Will Perdue), and Beavis & Butt-Head: This Book Sucks (Stacey King). Some players read every