Player Quotes - page 49

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player. (Jack Nicholson)
Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field. View quote
Andriy Shevchenko
Every poker player is smarter than me. View quote
Penn Jillette
The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are. View quote
Michael Jordan
There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either. View quote
Michael Jordan
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game. View quote
Michael Jordan
I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character. View quote
Frank Lampard
I am certainly not the most talented player in the world; there's many a more talented player than me. View quote
Frank Lampard
I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best. View quote
Frank Lampard
I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them. View quote
Johnny Miller
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player! (Eddie Murphy)
I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years. View quote
Brett Hull
Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief. View quote
Matt Taibbi
I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do. View quote
David Ortiz
Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know. View quote
Alex Ferguson
I deserve to be chained by night in a church basement without company o' cassette player if I'm not man enough to ask you for the teeniest, slightest brush of oral-muscular affaction. View quote
Tom Robbins
The importance of teammates is the thing I appreciate the most from those years. I was a lucky guy. There is nothing better than good teammates. I don't care what anybody says, you can't do it alone. It takes a good team for you to be a good player, and the same goes for playing on a bad team. View quote
Phil Esposito
I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai. (Viswanathan Anand)
The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet. View quote
Steven Gerrard
Joe You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar I know, every time. Joe Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.) View quote
Marilyn Monroe
There has been a [name of player] sighting. View quote
Keith Olbermann
Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player. View quote
Keith Olbermann