Player Quotes - page 3

A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years! (Cannonball Adderley)
We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other players must guess what it is by asking questions that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no." I imagine every language has a similar game, and, for those of us who speak the language of science, the game is called The Scientific Method. View quote
K. Barry Sharpless
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. View quote
Harry S. Truman
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. View quote
Branch Rickey
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late. View quote
Branch Rickey
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. View quote
Branch Rickey
Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. ‘Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese. View quote
Pelé
When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult. View quote
Pelé
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.. View quote
Willem de Kooning
When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa. View quote
Miriam Makeba
The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game. (Susan Sontag)
I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player. View quote
Kid Rock
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. View quote
José Raúl Capablanca
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation. View quote
Vladimir Kramnik
In cinema, the leading player is the director. View quote
Ben Kingsley
Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special. View quote
Wilt Chamberlain
Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years ... France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. View quote
G. H. Hardy
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success. (Larry Bird)
When thou was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing. View quote
Larry Bird
We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content ... What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet - and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock - open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock. Worst case: Somebody just takes the analog outputs of their CD player and rerecords it - puts it on the Internet. You'll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it. View quote
Steve Jobs
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture. View quote
William Irwin Thompson
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player. View quote
Ornette Coleman