Player Quotes - page 44

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it. (Lou Holtz)
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on. View quote
Lou Holtz
In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be. View quote
Lou Holtz
All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them. View quote
Lou Holtz
My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, Okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire. View quote
Nicki Minaj
Joe We can't just walk out on her without saying goodbye. Jerry What Since when You usually walk out and leave 'em with nothing but a kick in the teeth. Joe That's when I was a saxophone player. Now I'm a millionaire. View quote
Tony Curtis
There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No. View quote
George Best
I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there. View quote
Steve Martin
I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid. View quote
John McEnroe
I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
4-5-1? Never. It was always 4-3-3 for me as a player and as manager, just like [Frank] Rijkaard at Barcelona. With 4-3-3, it's much easier to make combinations going forward. With only one forward, who is he going to pass to? Who is he going to make combinations with? Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football and nobody will convince me otherwise. (Johan Cruyff)
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that. View quote
John Malkovich
I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player. View quote
Jeff Bridges
My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there. View quote
David Gilmour
All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero. View quote
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I love it when you call me Big Poppa; throw your hands in the air if you's a true player. View quote
The Notorious B.I.G.
Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen. View quote
Wilt Chamberlain
The door can never be closed for good to any player. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player. (Zinedine Zidane)
I always wanted to be a basketball player. View quote
Ronnie James Dio
I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me. View quote
Dennis Bergkamp
If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you. View quote
Kim Kardashian
The middle class is getting the squeeze, and only one in a thousand will go up. The Big Holders are the house, and the small farmers are the players. The player goes broke if he keeps on playing, and the farmer has to play or lose to the Government by default. View quote
William S. Burroughs