Quotes About Players

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.

I think players of the national team are not entitled to make an opinion about who is making the team and who is not. At least in my days it was like that.

I play with players in the Brazilian national team who are similar to those at Chelsea - Kaka, Neymar.

It doesn't matter to me, because in Europe I used to play for my national team... I was one of the best players and I start from the bench. For a European player, it means nothing. If I'm going to have the minutes, it doesn't matter to me if I'm going to start.

There's seriously talented players who have been around for a long time, both in the national team and with Bayern, so there's always a danger of not playing so often.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.

Hope? The word seemed to bang from wall to wall. Hope? No, I don't think there's any hope. We're too empty here...She touched her heart. This isn't a country at all, it's a collection of football players and Eagle Scouts. Cowards. We think we're happy. We're not. We're doomed.

There's so much uncertainty within certain players and the organization.

I want to widen the pool. In the past, England players have maybe had the comfort of knowing what the next squad is going to be before it's announced, but I'd like there to be more uncertainty. More competition for places means the standard goes up.

As a player, I'm a combination of my father and my uncle. People back home say that they were such good players and that I remind them of them both.

I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

The Spanish league has better individual players than the German league. However, in Germany, there are more teams that are uncomfortable to play against because they are more aggressive than teams in Spain.

How many times have you seen me run into the box with the ball, dribbling past players? It's uncommon because it's not my game; it's not my thing.

It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.

Music is just sound - what's more important to me is behavior. I'm watching these play-offs - basketball - it's interesting to watch behavior, underneath all the movements and everything like that. They go into the audience and show some of the parents of the players and all that.

I don't understand the lack of respect for amazing players when people say they are not good enough for me.

Guardiola has a lot of knowledge about the game and understands the psychology of the players. You can see all the things he is doing well.

The big players historically hold a lot of influence at Chelsea and while I would never doubt their attempts to win matches for the club, their levels undoubtedly change depending on how they feel about a manager at the time. They're either having him or they're not, and once they're not it spells borrowed time for the guy in charge.

For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles.

It's very difficult and unfair probably to compare players from different eras, because they were able to reach excellence in their time and they have to be rewarded for that.

It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.

I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I'd like them to be honest.

Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.