Quotes About Players

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

I don't want robots. I want players who are spontaneous.

If you look at poker as a sport like baseball, then I'd be maybe a minor league or high school ballplayer. But I play with T-ballers.

As a manager, you always want as many players available as possible, but injuries are a part of football, as it is a contact sport.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

The players and the coaches have been my soft landing spot, and those men and their acceptance of me and the respect they've shown to me on the air, that has changed fans' opinion of me.

I think what Brendan Rodgers did was right; I thought it was successful. He was able to show that he was able to change several players, prove to everybody in the team that no-one's guaranteed a spot, rest a lot of key players, and at the same time walk away with a very reputable result.

Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.

I knew there were certain relationships that existed between referees and players, referees and coaches and referees and owners that influence the point spreads in games.

In 2007, Barca B were demoted from the Tercera to the Cuarta Division and I was among the players who wanted to leave. Then Guardiola arrived and he wanted to play with wingers that were spread out across the pitch and he gave me an opportunity.

As San Antonio Spurs players, we have a responsibility for our community.

I do not regret it and I really enjoyed my time at Spurs. I improved a lot playing with big players.

As you get older, you get less people to hold you accountable, especially in pro sports. The players have all the power. Unless you play for the Spurs. Then you're a college kid for life.

Pirlo and Tevez are extraordinary players and any squad would miss them.

There is not really any point in having a big squad if you don't use it.

I have always said that it is fundamental to have a strong core of Italian players in a club squad. At AC Milan, we had that and we won. The same at Juventus.

My opinion is always that players need to be happy. You cannot keep them in the squad if they are not happy.

You can never know if there will be a second Cruyff, someone with a great personality who can grow up and make it into the squad of the club they love. But what is certain is that, in the Champions League, there will be big clubs producing these players forever.

Many players in the French squad play in the Premier League or have played in the Premier League, so I knew about the level.

There are so many clubs with great squads, good managers, good financial situations that allows them to sign good players.

You only have to look at the England squad to see the amount of players who get in the squad and start the games - the majority play in the Champions League.

There are times when new players replace injured players in the national squad. Since the new players don't have enough experience and match practice at the international level, they seldom play under a lot of pressure.

Spain are a fantastic team and fantastic squad of players.