I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
- Kareem Abduljabbar
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
- Alexander Alekhine
We don't just want to win the Super Bowl, we want to make a dynasty. I want to be a player who makes that a reality.
- Shaun Alexander
The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.
- Sparky Anderson
Well then, maybe you should also be aware of the fact that I know you have a reputation as a player and I know a lot of other people know that. If any woman tries to cut into my action, I'm taking her down.
- Kristen Ashley
Then he muttered like he was talking to himself, "I don't know if I want her to figure out she's fuckin' gorgeous so she isn't so fuckin' clueless when a player marks her or if I'm glad I finally got one who looks as good as her and has no fuckin' clue."
"Are you wanting me to participate in this discussion or are you having a conversation with yourself?"
"You're participation isn't required," Sam replied... and I looked up to see him grinning.
- Kristen Ashley
It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.
- Ernie Banks
I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.
- Charles Barkley
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night.
- Gerry Beckley
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.
- Dennis Bergkamp
So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.
- Dennis Bergkamp
I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
- Karen Black
Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
- Ritchie Blackmore
The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.
- Andrew Bogut
As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.
- Terry Bradshaw
When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.
- Scott Brooks
I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.
- Chili Davis
I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
- Bear Bryant
Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.
- Alex Ferguson
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.
- Alex Ferguson
I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.
- Rod Carew
All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
- Lou Holtz
'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.
- Joe Clark
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.
- Roy Clark
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.
- Bradley Cooper
I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.
- Jim Courier
The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
- Michael Jordan
I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionated - maybe the lads might say a little bit too opinionated for their liking but that is just a natural progression for a player.
- Kenny Cunningham
I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.
- Rick Danko
The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.
- Tim Duncan
I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
- Tim Duncan
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
- Leo Durocher
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
- Patrick Ewing
I am not a player.
- Marat Safin
Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.
- Luis Figo
I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.
- Robbie Fowler
...advancing through my schedule without volition, feeling more and more like the graphical lozenge on a media player's progress bar.
- Jonathan Franzen
Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
- Ford Frick
How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
- Hayden Fry
She's a skank. He's a player. He's cute but almost OD'd last year, so he's a bad bet. She's a two-faced, lying, cheating witch. That's right, Trina, I'm talking to you," she shouted. "By the way," she added just for me, "Trina cusses, which means cussing is trashy, which means my golden rule is to never cuss. I have class. Unlike Trina, the skank of Birmingham." The last part was, of course, shouted.
- Gena Showalter
I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."
- Joe Garagiola
So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
- Kevin Garnett
Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player.
- David Gill
There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.
- Evelyn Glennie
I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
- Ellen Hopkins
He is a gentleman!
[He's a player.]
- Ellen Hopkins
As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.
- David Gower
He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
- Benny Green
Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.
- Wayne Gretzky
I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.
- Brian Griese
If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.
- Ruud Gullit
All I wanted to be was a player.
- Franco Harris
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.
- Jeff Healey
My journey as a player is complete.
- Rickey Henderson
And it's Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I've been saying it for years but she still won't go out with me-"
"JORDAN!" yelled Professor McGonagall.
"Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest.
- J K Rowling
I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.
- Glenn Hoddle
Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.
- Allan Houston
Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.
- Allan Houston
When it was time for a player to go, he went.
- Cal Hubbard
Everything that happens to you, I feel like it helps you develop as a person, as a player.
- Phil Humber
I am not a player anymore.
- Michael Irvin
Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
- Lara St John
To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.
- Holly Johnson
The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.
- Michael Lewis
And Daniel?" She asked.
"Daniel was a player-"
"Hey!"
"That's what they called the actors." Bill rolled his eyes.
- Lauren Kate
Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C
players; and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to Z
players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.
- Guy Kawasaki
Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.
- Guy Kawasaki
I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.
- Robbie Keane
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
- Billie Jean King
A lot of that, "Have you ever noticed that [specific Florida player] is like the [dated cultural reference] version of [obscure player from the middle 1980s] except that his [some ridiculous stoner concept about grizzly bears] has been filtered through the political ideology of [random indie artist currently on tour with Built to Spill]?" We all have to pay the rent, rockers. I know who I am.
- Chuck Klosterman
One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.
- Lydia Ko
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
- Geddy Lee
Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
- Mario Lemieux
I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.
- Tony Levin
The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
- Gary Lineker
I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.
- Rebecca Lobo
Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
- Al Lopez
Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
- Mickey Mantle
After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.
- Angie Martinez
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
- Bill Mccartney
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
- Branch Rickey
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
- Branch Rickey
Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.
- Helen Wills Moody
And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.
- Randy Moss
In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.
- Gerry Mulligan
But you know, even worrying about haircuts couldn't depress me. Because every time I started sinking low, I'd just remember about football. All this time I'd thought I wanted to be a trainer, when it turned out I wanted to be a player instead. I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom this gave meI can't even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it. I am not a cow.
- Catherine Gilbert Murdock
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
- Gary Neville
It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
- Yannick Noah
I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
- Adam Oates
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.
- David Ortiz
The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.
- Bob Paisley
At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.
- Michel Patini
I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.
- Mike Piazza
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
- Mike Piazza
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.
- Paul Pierce
I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
- Patrick Rafter
We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.
- Gordon Ramsay
He's 33 for God's sake - being a player isn't cute anymore.
- Sylvain Reynard
A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
- Pat Riley
I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
- Oscar Robertson
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
- Oscar Robertson
When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.
- Oscar Robertson
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.
- Frank Robinson
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
- Dennis Rodman
No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.
- Pete Rose
But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.
- Pete Rozelle
I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.
- Kurt Russell
Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.
- Jeanette Winterson
I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.
- Don Shula
I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.
- Chad Smith
What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.
- Duke Snider
I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
- Tabitha Soren
I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.
- Willie Stargell
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.
- Howard Staunton
I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
- Jerry Stiller
You never know who will win and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year.
- Michael Strahan
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
- Pat Summerall
At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.
- Mats Sundin
If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.
- Lynn Swann
First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.
- Lawrence Taylor
So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
- Sonny Terry
It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.
- Isaiah Thomas
In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.
- Bill Tilden
I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.
- Bob Uecker
I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
- Fay Vincent
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
- Bill Walton
I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.
- Jerry West
Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
- Shelley Winters
I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
- Tiger Woods
It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.
- Steve Yzerman
A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.
- Fuzzy Zoeller
- Kareem Abduljabbar
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
- Alexander Alekhine
We don't just want to win the Super Bowl, we want to make a dynasty. I want to be a player who makes that a reality.
- Shaun Alexander
The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.
- Sparky Anderson
Well then, maybe you should also be aware of the fact that I know you have a reputation as a player and I know a lot of other people know that. If any woman tries to cut into my action, I'm taking her down.
- Kristen Ashley
Then he muttered like he was talking to himself, "I don't know if I want her to figure out she's fuckin' gorgeous so she isn't so fuckin' clueless when a player marks her or if I'm glad I finally got one who looks as good as her and has no fuckin' clue."
"Are you wanting me to participate in this discussion or are you having a conversation with yourself?"
"You're participation isn't required," Sam replied... and I looked up to see him grinning.
- Kristen Ashley
It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.
- Ernie Banks
I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.
- Charles Barkley
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night.
- Gerry Beckley
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.
- Dennis Bergkamp
So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.
- Dennis Bergkamp
I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
- Karen Black
Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
- Ritchie Blackmore
The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.
- Andrew Bogut
As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.
- Terry Bradshaw
When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.
- Scott Brooks
I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.
- Chili Davis
I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
- Bear Bryant
Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.
- Alex Ferguson
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.
- Alex Ferguson
I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.
- Rod Carew
All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
- Lou Holtz
'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.
- Joe Clark
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.
- Roy Clark
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.
- Bradley Cooper
I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.
- Jim Courier
The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
- Michael Jordan
I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionated - maybe the lads might say a little bit too opinionated for their liking but that is just a natural progression for a player.
- Kenny Cunningham
I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.
- Rick Danko
The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.
- Tim Duncan
I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
- Tim Duncan
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
- Leo Durocher
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
- Patrick Ewing
I am not a player.
- Marat Safin
Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.
- Luis Figo
I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.
- Robbie Fowler
...advancing through my schedule without volition, feeling more and more like the graphical lozenge on a media player's progress bar.
- Jonathan Franzen
Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
- Ford Frick
How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
- Hayden Fry
She's a skank. He's a player. He's cute but almost OD'd last year, so he's a bad bet. She's a two-faced, lying, cheating witch. That's right, Trina, I'm talking to you," she shouted. "By the way," she added just for me, "Trina cusses, which means cussing is trashy, which means my golden rule is to never cuss. I have class. Unlike Trina, the skank of Birmingham." The last part was, of course, shouted.
- Gena Showalter
I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."
- Joe Garagiola
So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
- Kevin Garnett
Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player.
- David Gill
There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.
- Evelyn Glennie
I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
- Ellen Hopkins
He is a gentleman!
[He's a player.]
- Ellen Hopkins
As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.
- David Gower
He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
- Benny Green
Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.
- Wayne Gretzky
I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.
- Brian Griese
If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.
- Ruud Gullit
All I wanted to be was a player.
- Franco Harris
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.
- Jeff Healey
My journey as a player is complete.
- Rickey Henderson
And it's Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I've been saying it for years but she still won't go out with me-"
"JORDAN!" yelled Professor McGonagall.
"Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest.
- J K Rowling
I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.
- Glenn Hoddle
Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.
- Allan Houston
Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.
- Allan Houston
When it was time for a player to go, he went.
- Cal Hubbard
Everything that happens to you, I feel like it helps you develop as a person, as a player.
- Phil Humber
I am not a player anymore.
- Michael Irvin
Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
- Lara St John
To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.
- Holly Johnson
The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.
- Michael Lewis
And Daniel?" She asked.
"Daniel was a player-"
"Hey!"
"That's what they called the actors." Bill rolled his eyes.
- Lauren Kate
Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C
players; and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to Z
players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.
- Guy Kawasaki
Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.
- Guy Kawasaki
I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.
- Robbie Keane
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
- Billie Jean King
A lot of that, "Have you ever noticed that [specific Florida player] is like the [dated cultural reference] version of [obscure player from the middle 1980s] except that his [some ridiculous stoner concept about grizzly bears] has been filtered through the political ideology of [random indie artist currently on tour with Built to Spill]?" We all have to pay the rent, rockers. I know who I am.
- Chuck Klosterman
One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.
- Lydia Ko
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
- Geddy Lee
Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
- Mario Lemieux
I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.
- Tony Levin
The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
- Gary Lineker
I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.
- Rebecca Lobo
Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
- Al Lopez
Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
- Mickey Mantle
After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.
- Angie Martinez
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
- Bill Mccartney
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
- Branch Rickey
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
- Branch Rickey
Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.
- Helen Wills Moody
And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.
- Randy Moss
In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.
- Gerry Mulligan
But you know, even worrying about haircuts couldn't depress me. Because every time I started sinking low, I'd just remember about football. All this time I'd thought I wanted to be a trainer, when it turned out I wanted to be a player instead. I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom this gave meI can't even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it. I am not a cow.
- Catherine Gilbert Murdock
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
- Gary Neville
It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
- Yannick Noah
I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
- Adam Oates
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.
- David Ortiz
The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.
- Bob Paisley
At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.
- Michel Patini
I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.
- Mike Piazza
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
- Mike Piazza
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.
- Paul Pierce
I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
- Patrick Rafter
We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.
- Gordon Ramsay
He's 33 for God's sake - being a player isn't cute anymore.
- Sylvain Reynard
A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
- Pat Riley
I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
- Oscar Robertson
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
- Oscar Robertson
When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.
- Oscar Robertson
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.
- Frank Robinson
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
- Dennis Rodman
No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.
- Pete Rose
But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.
- Pete Rozelle
I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.
- Kurt Russell
Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.
- Jeanette Winterson
I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.
- Don Shula
I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.
- Chad Smith
What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.
- Duke Snider
I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
- Tabitha Soren
I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.
- Willie Stargell
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.
- Howard Staunton
I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
- Jerry Stiller
You never know who will win and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year.
- Michael Strahan
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
- Pat Summerall
At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.
- Mats Sundin
If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.
- Lynn Swann
First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.
- Lawrence Taylor
So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
- Sonny Terry
It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.
- Isaiah Thomas
In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.
- Bill Tilden
I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.
- Bob Uecker
I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
- Fay Vincent
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
- Bill Walton
I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.
- Jerry West
Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
- Shelley Winters
I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
- Tiger Woods
It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.
- Steve Yzerman
A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.
- Fuzzy Zoeller
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