Quotes About Players

I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.

I've been hanging out with some really good football players and having a few more opportunities to have the ball in my hands, and I think it really just comes down to those things.

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

I think the more common players who have been around for a while - Joe Root, Alastair Cook, Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad - those guys I know of, they're fantastic players.

I am one of the pioneers, along with those players who went before me, and I'm coming to China to help the league and help more players get to know this league.

Most of our players come from the Championship; Chelsea can get more or less anyone from around the world. Some clubs in this division have owners who say it doesn't matter what they spend. I don't know what happened to Financial Fair Play but it didn't exactly level the playing field.

I am of the opinion that the burden of playing games is much too high, especially for international players that also play domestically with their clubs.

I'm all for players extending their careers, and I'm all for trying to be as healthy as possible for the playoff run.

In the playoffs, the best players are supposed to play better. I did. It made no difference.

I'm really pleased with WPS and the quality of players and the teams.

I've been satisfied with everything since I arrived at Barca, and I'm pleased with the players' attitude.

T20 is amazing, good entertainment; there's plenty of money involved and I'm all in for the importance of money in a sport and the players.

I've been in football a long time now and I've seen plenty of managers and players come and go. It is part and parcel of the game.

Relegation has happened to plenty of players who were bigger names than me.

I understand there is a lot of pressure on managers to get instant results, but English players know the league, and for them to be given the opportunity and the time as well, there is plenty of talent out there.

I mean, I've done college basketball, a horse race, a bunch of different things and they'd blow by but golf has a frenetic pace of bouncing around from shot to shot and green to green and, in essence, acre to acre over this huge plot of land with over 150 players who are their own team.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

The thing is 3,900 out of 4,000 college basketball players are very happy to have a scholarship. They're happy. They've got a $70,000 scholarship and they've got money in their pocket. It's the other hundred guys and they're all going to make money playing basketball and the top guys are going to make a lot of money.

It's a different style the way the German players play. I think the English players like to play a lot of one and two touch and we can find each other in the pockets.

Magic Johnson is one of the greatest players to ever play... he's the best point guard to ever play, so I can learn a lot of things from him.

In Naples, I was very lucky to find my players adapted to my way of football. They were strong as players and strong from a human point of view.

I've been a club manager myself and know the demands and, from a selfish point of view, you want your players to be fit every week.

I look at the England job. It's not always about being the greatest coach. You've got less than a week before most matches. So do the players need actual coaching, or do they need to be set up in a team structure that works, and then pointed in the right direction? Create spirit, take away the fear.

That's management. It's a social job as much as anything else, finding out what people are like, seeing through them. There have been good players and not-so-good players who I have moved along because I thought there would be a clash of character.