Player Quotes - page 46

When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen. (Tom Wolfe)
I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea. View quote
Ted Lindsay
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season. View quote
Will Ferrell
Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers. View quote
Jay Leno
I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano. View quote
PJ Harvey
As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives. View quote
Hope Solo
I managed to win Battle Of The Bands with one mandolin player! It was me and eleven goth bands and I won. View quote
KT Tunstall
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken. View quote
Martha Stewart
I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player. View quote
George H. W. Bush
I still don't really feel like a bass player. View quote
Kim Gordon
But if politics is an art, it is not like sculpture or painting, where one side acts and the other is passive material. It is more like drama without a script, or dance without choreography - in other words, improvisation. Either player may surprise us again with a new move. (Thomas Flanagan (political scientist))
I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming. View quote
Kobe Bryant
HP's goal is to bring the most compelling entertainment content and experiences to our customers, ... We explored a range of alternatives to deliver a great digital music experience and concluded Apple's iPod music player and iTunes music service were the best by far. By partnering with Apple, we have the opportunity to add value by integrating the world's best digital music offering into HP's larger digital entertainment system strategy. View quote
Carly Fiorina
His manager is a former player of Derby County and is recommending that Derby County is the place to be, that guy being Mikkel Beck. He speaks very highly of me. It's ongoing again. These scenarios take time. View quote
Phil Brown (footballer)
Inigo is, without a shadow of a doubt, a player. View quote
Phil Brown (footballer)
Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person. View quote
Brett Favre
I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure. View quote
Brett Favre
I think every player should think that he's a difference maker. View quote
Brett Favre
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. View quote
David Mamet
The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa. (Hakeem Olajuwon)
You would always prefer to give back to your own country first but the way Mahela conducted himself as a player for Sri Lanka over the years has been exemplary. View quote
Mahela Jayawardene
Mahela is a class player so it would be great to have him back and in the form he was in before he got injured [injured his thigh during a cricket game]. View quote
Mahela Jayawardene
Other sports can take a cue from cricket too. A generation ago, if anybody had suggested that a player from Ranchi would lead India one day, he would have been laughed at. View quote
Anil Kumble
I would like to congratulate Anil for his long and successful career. He is a great competitor and every single player of my team, who has played against him, is proud of the cricketer. I wish he enjoys his time after the game. View quote
Anil Kumble