Players Quotes

1. "Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust."
Author: Bill Parcells

2. "If I were on the field, I'd want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that."
Author: Bobby Cox

3. "Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world."
Author: C.S. Lewis

4. "I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea."
Author: Chuck Mangione

5. "Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots."
Author: Dean Smith

6. "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."
Author: Dusty Baker

7. "Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here."
Author: Eddie Murray

8. "The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called "Keep to-morrow dark," and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) "Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. They then go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun."
Author: G.K. Chesterton

9. "Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads."
Author: Gary Neville

10. "Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players."
Author: Gerry Mulligan

11. "All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity."
Author: Gordie Howe

12. "I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach."
Author: Ian Rush

13. "We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the changes were because of injuries. But that's where I give a lot of credit to the group in terms of being able to maintain things."
Author: Isaiah Thomas

14. "I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game."
Author: Isaiah Thomas

15. "The team with the best players wins."
Author: Jack Welch

16. "Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford."
Author: Jamie Farr

17. "On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman."
Author: Jed Rubenfeld

18. "I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to."
Author: Jennifer Wyatt

19. "Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly."
Author: Jim Evans

20. "Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have."
Author: Joe Perry

21. "Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take."
Author: John C. Maxwell

22. "There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and the toys cleverer with every generation, and there's no such thing for either side as enough security. Not for the main players, not for the nasty little newcomers who each year run themselves up a suitcase bomb and join the club. We get tired of believing that, because we're human. We may even con ourselves into believing the threat has gone away. It never will. Never, never, never.""So, who'll save us then, Walt?" Barley asked. "You and Nedsky?""Vanity, if anything will, which I doubt," Walter retorted. "No leader wants to go down in history as the ass who destroyed his country in an afternoon. And funk, I suppose. Most of our gallant politicians do have a narcissistic objection to suicide, thank God."
Author: John Le Carré

23. "So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players."
Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

24. "Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."
Author: Larry Bird

25. "Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you."
Author: Leo Durocher

26. "All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that's what will be left at the end of it all."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

27. "In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are... show them some love."
Author: Matt Kemp

28. "So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore."
Author: Miroslav Vitous

29. "Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders serve an important purpose, the real contest involves players on the field or on the court of life. We must not go through life acting only as enthusiastic cheerleaders available for hire; we must be anxiously and personally engaged."
Author: Neal A. Maxwell

30. "Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone."
Author: Pete Rose

31. "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."
Author: Pete Rozelle

32. "I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media."
Author: Phil Mickelson

33. "The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are."
Author: Reggie Jackson

34. "The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club."
Author: Richard Gough

35. "On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to win—grunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing.Oh…and the players were all baboons."
Author: Rick Riordan

36. "The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us."
Author: Roger Goodell

37. "Badminton will gain momentum in a big manner after my win in Olympics. More players will participate in the game now."
Author: Saina Nehwal

38. "To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period."
Author: Scott Ian

39. "The players make the manager, it's never the other way."
Author: Sparky Anderson

40. "Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players"
Author: Stephen R. Covey

41. "But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see."
Author: Steve Spurrier

42. "The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review."
Author: Terence McKenna

43. "There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens."
Author: Tommy Lasorda

44. "My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports."
Author: Tony Dorsett

45. "We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow."
Author: Viswanathan Anand

46. "In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this."
Author: Vladimir Kramnik

47. "Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different."
Author: Warren Moon

48. "Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something."
Author: Wynton Marsalis

49. "Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players."
Author: Xavi

50. "I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream."
Author: Zinedine Zidane

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