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Quotes About Players

Strategy is important. Execution is imperative. However, the most overlooked aspect in team sports, and what most coaches and leaders fail to grasp, is the fact that it is your culture that will determine whether your strategy works and is sustainable. It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute.
~ Jon Gordon
Beautiful friendships" are often based on the fact that the players complement each other with great economy and satisfaction, so that there is a maximum yield with a minimum effort from the games they play with each other.
~ Eric Berne
Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.
~ Erich von Stroheim
Though the most be players, some must be spectators.
~ Ben Jonson
Merging the SEC and CFTC was a political nonstarter because they were overseen by separate committees in Congress. The congressional oversight committees jealously guarded their turf because the market players regulated by the two agencies could be counted on to provide lucrative campaign contributions.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
The way football has evolved in some of the bigger leagues in the world, you'd have to say there has become a bigger distance between the contact that you have, for everybody really. It's quite refreshing actually to experience something as simplistic as enjoying winning a game, and the players and the fans being together.
~ Nigel Pearson
There's no doubt that position is a very important aspect of the game. But some players take this concept to the extreme and consequently miss opportunities when they refuse to play hands out of position.
~ Daniel Negreanu
China has incredible financial power and sometimes makes offers that players can't refuse.
~ Oscar
At the back end of my career I'd put myself in the situations you see in changing rooms. Where there is conflict, arguments, fights, players refusing this and that, players kicking off.
~ Scott Parker
There is a finite group of major financial players... and overall, the best thing for all of us is to be in an industry that's well respected, well regarded, and well thought of.
~ Gary Cohn
Regarding my coaching philosophy, I think it is important to adapt to the team/players and the culture in the country where you are coaching, but to keep possession is a key issue wherever you are.
~ Michael Laudrup
It's pretty simple for me; I believe all people are created equal, regardless of their sexuality. To promote respect and acceptance is an important role for NFL players and the NFLPA.
~ Steve Gleason
My job is to bring in players I think can help this team, regardless of where they're playing.
~ Jill Ellis
Players are fundamentally the same - regardless of what they earn. They want to improve and want to be part of something.
~ Graham Potter
I regret the 1998 - 99 lockout. I regret that we didn't work harder to educate our players and our owners about what the damage would be. I never can quite come up with the answer on what else we should have done, but I always blame a part of the problem on us and some part on the players.
~ David Stern
The fact of the matter is that people don't understand that football players are regular people just like them. And half of them don't understand the business. And most of them just want you to entertain them.
~ Ed Reed
With games being called off, and clubs having to field under-strength teams because of Covid outbreaks, it looks terrible when pictures emerge of Premier League players enjoying social gatherings in blatant breach of the regulations.
~ Robbie Savage
I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.
~ Fred Couples
I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.
~ Roberta Williams
I can only think of about four players who I do not have anywhere from a good to a great relationship with.
~ Tony La Russa
Players should get the best deals for themselves whenever they can. Football is a relatively short career.
~ Diego Forlan
With a good start, players can relax a bit more and aren't so anxious throughout the season.
~ Diego Forlan
I don't want to lose the feeling I have for players, but the pro system almost causes you to be cold and insensitive, when you have to release players yearly.
~ Jimmy Johnson
It's not an easy challenge picking up players in January, I've always found it tough. Clubs don't want to release their better players.
~ Neil Warnock