Quotes About Players

The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

But this way of thinking about competition is too narrow. The real point of competition is not to beat your rivals. It's not about winning a sale. The point is to earn profits. Competing for profits is more complex. It's a struggle involving multiple players, not just rivals, over who will capture the value an industry creates.

By treating decisions as bets, poker players explicitly recognize that they are deciding on alternative futures, each with benefits and risks. They also recognize there are no simple answers. Some things are unknown or unknowable.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we're also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players.

In 'Dragon Ball,' the characters have a challenge. They know they have to push their bodies to the limit in their training so they can make sure to defeat their opponent, much like professional football players.

I've played with, and against, some of the best players in the world and have experienced so much that professional football has to offer.

I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.

We're professionals. We're NFL players. We get paid to do a job, to go out there and execute the plan.

I've had a lot of great coaches. I think Guus Hiddink and Vicente del Bosque are the ones closest to my style. I'm more friendly with the players than a 'formal' coach. I'm not a professor. I'm Roberto Carlos and I want to win with my players and I want them to help me by doing their job well.

If I have an idea of football, and I am the manager, it doesn't make sense for the club to find players with a different profile.

Cruyff defined a philosophy and a style of how we had to play: positional play, type of players, the profile of the coaches, even.

My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players.

I don't think we can even compare ourselves to the Japanese or the Chinese players in any way, given their richly-funded programs and their methodical approach to sport.

If you have a great culture and you're progressing the right way to win I think players will always want to come.

I promised my mother that I'd be a famous footballer one day after seeing players such as Croatia's Davor Suker and Serbia's Predrag Mijatovic shine in France.

As the manager, Ive told my players that if anyone is sin-binned for backchat to referees or officials, they will miss the next two games - with no promises that they will get back in the side.