Player Quotes

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. (Alexander Alekhine)
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back. View quote
Paul McCartney
Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in. View quote
Casey Stengel
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. View quote
William Hazlitt
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. View quote
Pelé
A good player is always lucky. View quote
José Raúl Capablanca
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. View quote
Mickey Spillane
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack. View quote
Wilhelm Steinitz
The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. (Sania Mirza)
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
CHICAGO Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Every now and then, when you're onstage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. View quote
Shelley Winters
Game theory is a theory of strategic interaction. That is to say, it is a theory of rational behavior in social situations in which each player has to choose his moves on the basis of what he thinks the other players' countermoves are likely to be. View quote
John Harsanyi
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. View quote
Alice Cooper
I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy. View quote
Steven Gerrard
But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it. View quote
Steven Gerrard
It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well. View quote
Siegbert Tarrasch
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. View quote
Voltaire
I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh. (Maurice Gibb)
In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion. View quote
Novak Djokovic
I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes. View quote
Ruud Gullit
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team. View quote
Phil Knight
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. View quote
Shaquille O'Neal