Player Quotes - page 5

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy. (Lionel Messi)
He is a world-class player who needs no introductions. View quote
Alessandro Del Piero
When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball. View quote
Roberto Clemente
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. View quote
William Shakespeare
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck. View quote
Sophocles
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player. View quote
Siegbert Tarrasch
Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player. View quote
Albert Einstein
If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field. View quote
Ruud Gullit
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. View quote
Shaquille O'Neal
If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man. View quote
Bradley Cooper
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted. (Bradley Whitford)
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums. View quote
Brian May
As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. View quote
David Duchovny
I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart. View quote
Dennis Rodman
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph. View quote
Dennis Rodman
You were designed to be very smart, Max,' she told me. 'We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing.' (The director) And yet I still can't program my DVD player,' I said." (Max) View quote
James Patterson
When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater. View quote
Elizabeth Olsen
I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too. View quote
Zendaya
It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old. View quote
Alison Gopnik
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion. (Alfred Binet)
Rafe didn't just flirt-he charmed girls right up to the point where they fell for him, then he changed his mind. I called him a player with attention deficit disorder. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches. View quote
Keegan-Michael Key
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place. View quote
Luis Figo
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker. View quote
Jo Nesbo