Player Quotes - page 9

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones. (Ed O'Neill)
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. View quote
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody Ive ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me. View quote
Edgar Meyer
My father was an all-American football player. View quote
Edwin Moses
I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls. View quote
Fred Couples
Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there. View quote
Fred Seibert
All I wanted to be was a player. View quote
Franco Harris
I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out. View quote
Frank Robinson
I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence. View quote
Gabriela Sabatini
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality. View quote
Gabrielle Reece
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player. (Gerry Mulligan)
I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do. View quote
Goran Ivanisevic
Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world. View quote
Greg Norman
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal. View quote
Gavin DeGraw
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. View quote
Herb Alpert
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor. View quote
Herschel Walker
A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games. View quote
Howard Staunton
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him. View quote
Howard Staunton
In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed. View quote
Howard Staunton
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other. View quote
Howard Staunton
Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does. (Haley Joel Osment)
A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else. View quote
Hunter Hayes
How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is? View quote
Hayden Fry
Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient. View quote
Helen Wills
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession. View quote
Ian Botham