Quotes About Players

When we see active and former NFL players uniting with owners and the League to address injustice, we can see the way football brings people together beyond the game itself.

The money's there in England. They try to gather the best players. We do it differently here at Bayern. We have no investors, no owners.

I'm always on the players' side, of course. The owners are going to take their fill, but I'm always on the players' side.

I'll argue with the owners all day long when they do not allow the players to get the best.

At the end of the day, you can change coaches and managers and players, but if there's something intrinsic, something wrong, then you have to look at what the common denominator is, and, usually, you've got to look at the ownership because everything runs from there.

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

Football is not played in shorts and it's not fair to the big guys. So many guys look bad in shorts and then they put the pads on and they're football players.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

Pakistani people love cricket, they love to support and they love the players.

I don't want it to be a holiday camp, but it shouldn't be a concentration camp either. It is about getting the balance right with my relationship with them. I will do anything for the players but I'm not their pal as well.

I'm happy in Paris, I'm happy to play with great players and to be part of an ambitious project.

There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

I've always been partial to good players. If someone is a good player I'm interested.

Badminton will gain momentum in a big manner after my win in Olympics. More players will participate in the game now.

I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one.

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

I learned a lot at Chelsea partly down to the players I played alongside.

I am really irked by healthy NBA players resting. I really don't understand it. Players in the past have played all season for years. I just don't love it. I feel like it hurts the integrity and competitiveness of the game. It's got nothing to do with the TV partners; it's about cheating the fans.

I had very good players around me in the team, like in the German national team. Andreas Brehme was one of my best partners in the team because he had good eyes; he could always hit the best ball.

Playing in Milan for me meant being able to play alongside players who were idols to me as a kid. Playing alongside David Beckham - his long passes are perfect for me.

Basketball players want to be comfortable, they want to be lackadaisical, they want to make the right passes and take the right shots.

and we can be the players only when we understand loneliness and go beyond it. … because beyond it lies the real treasure. —J. Krishnamurti

The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.