When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
- Kareem Abduljabbar
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
- James Agate
So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
- Bill Parcells
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
- Bill Parcells
There were a lot of illegal, deadly things stored in Beckett's car, but the only thing he kept hidden was the CD he now pulled out from under the driver's seat. He slipped it in the player and turned on the power, letting the classical music sweep over him like a cool breeze. It was the soundtrack of his boys. The music that saved them. Blake's music.
- Debra Anastasia
The players make the manager, it's never the other way.
- Sparky Anderson
The players must be at the centre of their industry.
- Rob Andrew
One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.
- Jean Baudrillard
I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.
- Don Baylor
My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.
- Dennis Bergkamp
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
- Yogi Berra
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
- Ambrose Bierce
But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and Lucy had decided that they should triumph.
- E M Forster
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
- Larry Bird
People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.
- Holly Black
It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
- Barry Bonds
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to.... When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
- Ray Bradbury
Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.
- Herb Brooks
It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.
- Bear Bryant
If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.
- Paul Bryant
I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.
- Bill Bryson
On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to wingrunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing.
Oh...and the players were all baboons.
- Rick Riordan
I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.
- Alex Ferguson
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
- Fanny Burney
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
- William Hazlitt
Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.
- Timothy F Cahill
It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.
- Ken Caminiti
People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.
- Will Carling
An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
- Elliott Carter
Marla dug her fingernails into the palms of her hands as she watched the Coyotes struggle, without success, to make up the twelve-point deficit. It was hot in the arena, and the players were perspiring heavily. Neal was substituting often in order to give them water, but the heat was wearing them down, and the Cougars managed to outscore the Coyotes seventeen to two at the opening of the second half.
- Barbara Casey
With what can we feed the soul in the world of emptiness other than the player?
- Sorin Cerin
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
After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.
- Brandi Chastain
I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music.
- Brian Christian
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
- Ty Cobb
The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.
- David Cone
Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed.
- Malcolm Cowley
I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.
- Michael Jordan
I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.
- Novak Djokovic
To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.
- Snoop Dogg
You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.
- Tony Dorsett
Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.
- Milan Kundera
I sometimes have the feeling that her entire life was merely a continuation of her mother's, much as the course of a ball on the billiard table is merely the continuation of the player's arm movement.
- Milan Kundera
I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.
- Dennis Eckersley
It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.
- John Elway
When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.
- Julius Erving
Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.
- Rio Ferdinand
You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.
- Mike Figgis
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
- Edward Fitzgerald
It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.
- Guy Forget
One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.
- Gayle Forman
I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
- John Wooden
I think there's a real hunger for people speaking truth to power. Like, there's a little minority now that's saying you sounded like an asshole and a whiner. But that's just the player-hating fringe. I wouldn't worry about it.
- Jonathan Franzen
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
- Hayden Fry
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
- William Gaddis
In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces... Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players.
Petyr Baelish
- George R R Martin
Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.
- Paul Gascoigne
It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.
- Ryan Giggs
What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.
- Ryan Giggs
The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.
- Roger Goodell
What is true of the NFL is that it has been well-managed over the years. And that has been beneficial to the fans, it's been beneficial to the game itself, it's been beneficial to the players, coaches and everyone involved.
- Roger Goodell
It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.
- Jonny Greenwood
What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.
- Alan Hansen
Don't hate the player; change the game
- Steve Harvey
I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
- Whitey Herzog
Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!
- T F Hodge
Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
- Paul Hogan
Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
- Elbert Hubbard
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
- Thomas Huxley
We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
- Allen Iverson
The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.
- Jaromir Jagr
OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.
- Craig Johnston
I think the Commissioner is taking the steps necessary to give the game back to the players and the fans and hopefully take the league to the next level.
- Cobi Jones
I'm not paying you for the player you used to be, I'm paying you for the player you are right now.
- Michael Lewis
First of all, let me say thank you sir for the opportunity to scrub your jockstrap with my personal toothbrush. Of all the players on the Congressional softball team, you are by far the sweatiest.
- Jarod Kintz
I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.
- Al Kaline
I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.
- Robbie Keane
There existed very long saxophones from years ago. The player sat on their chair like a cellist; that same sort of feeling to it as well - unlike for example the way a harpist would be: the whole act differing in a very fundamental sense. Although harpists are fine. There is nothing to be said against harpists by any means whatsoever.
- James Kelman
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
- Ralph Kiner
Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
- W P Kinsella
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
- Bill Klem
The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.
- Jurgen Klinsmann
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.
- Richard Krajicek
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
- Vladimir Kramnik
A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.
- Guy Lafleur
The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.
- Guy Lafleur
The players have to come and play. Today we did.
- Bill Laimbeer
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
- Blaine Lee
Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again.
- Mario Lemieux
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
Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
- Ivan Lendl
But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.
- Ivan Lendl
I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.
- Alan Lewis
You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.
- Alan Lewis
I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.
- Alan Lewis
That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
- Jamal Lewis
Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
- Bob Lilly
They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
- Ted Lindsay
The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
- Gary Lineker
When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.
- Scott Lynch
You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
- Karl Malone
You didn't just write the play, Bertie," Peaseblossom said suddenly. "You ordered the Players about, shouted, and threw an artistic hissy fit. Do you know what that makes you?"
"A temperamental fusspot?" Mustardseed guessed.
"Crazier than a bag full of crazy?" Moth said.
"Close," Peaseblossom said. "It makes her a Director.
- Lisa Mantchev
The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.
- Don Mattingly
The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.
- Gene Mauch
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
- Evelyn Waugh
Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders serve an important purpose, the real contest involves players on the field or on the court of life. We must not go through life acting only as enthusiastic cheerleaders available for hire; we must be anxiously and personally engaged.
- Neal A Maxwell
I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.
- Will Mcdonough
I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.
- John Mcenroe
Sing a song of suspense in which the players die.
Four and twenty ravens in an Edgar Allan Pie.
When the pie was broken, the ravens couldn't sing.
Their throats had been sliced open by Stephen, the new King.
The King was in his writing house, stifling a laugh
While his queen was in a tizzy of her bloody Lovecraft.
When the dead maid got the garden for her rank as royal whore,
King's shovel made it double and he married nevermore.
- Jessica Mchugh
I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.
- Rory Mcilroy
I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.
- Mark Messier
As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.
- Mark Messier
Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.
- Yukio Mishima
When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.
- Shigeru Miyamoto
I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
- Shigeru Miyamoto
People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields.
- Shigeru Miyamoto
Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
- Jay Mohr
Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.
- Helen Wills Moody
The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.
- Helen Wills Moody
Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.
- Christopher Moore
As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.
- Ian Mortimer
The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.
- Li Na
Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.
- David Nalbandian
What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.
- Graham Nelson
A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.
- Graham Nelson
The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.
- Greg Norman
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
- Adam Oates
When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.
- Tom Osborne
I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.
- Stuart Pearce
I am nothing without the players.
- Stuart Pearce
I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.
- Mike Piazza
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.
- Steven Pinker
Everyone knows the game is about the players.
- Mike Quade
It's important we win and because of the players we have we should win some matches in style.
- Jamie Redknapp
You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.
- Jamie Redknapp
I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look.
- Claudio Reyna
There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.
- Jerry Rice
But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players.
- Graham Roberts
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
- Brooks Robinson
People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
- Frank Robinson
I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
- Andy Rooney
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
- Pete Rose
I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
- Darrell Royal
Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.
- Pete Rozelle
I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.
- Joe Sakic
You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.
- Joe Sakic
I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.
- Joe Sakic
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
- Esapekka Salonen
If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
- Irwin Shaw
But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue.
- Teddy Sheringham
In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.
- Gordon Smith
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
- Red Smith
But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.
- Steve Spurrier
But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.
- Leigh Steinberg
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
- Wilhelm Steinitz
With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.
- Michael Strahan
Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.
- John Terry
Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.
- Joe Theismann
I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.
- Isaiah Thomas
I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
- Isaiah Thomas
Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.
- John Thorn
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
- John Thorn
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
- John Thorn
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.
- John Thorn
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
- Fay Vincent
All the cameras shifted from the players to me.
- Lesley Visser
It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
- Dick Vitale
The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!
- Sid Waddell
I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.
- Arsene Wenger
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
- James Whistler
I feel for the players.
- Vanna White
You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.
- Sue Wicks
I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.
- Lenny Wilkens
When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.
- Douglas Wood
We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
- Sam Wood
I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to.
- Jennifer Wyatt
- Kareem Abduljabbar
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
- James Agate
So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
- Bill Parcells
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
- Bill Parcells
There were a lot of illegal, deadly things stored in Beckett's car, but the only thing he kept hidden was the CD he now pulled out from under the driver's seat. He slipped it in the player and turned on the power, letting the classical music sweep over him like a cool breeze. It was the soundtrack of his boys. The music that saved them. Blake's music.
- Debra Anastasia
The players make the manager, it's never the other way.
- Sparky Anderson
The players must be at the centre of their industry.
- Rob Andrew
One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.
- Jean Baudrillard
I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.
- Don Baylor
My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.
- Dennis Bergkamp
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
- Yogi Berra
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
- Ambrose Bierce
But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and Lucy had decided that they should triumph.
- E M Forster
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
- Larry Bird
People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.
- Holly Black
It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
- Barry Bonds
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to.... When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
- Ray Bradbury
Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.
- Herb Brooks
It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.
- Bear Bryant
If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.
- Paul Bryant
I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.
- Bill Bryson
On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to wingrunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing.
Oh...and the players were all baboons.
- Rick Riordan
I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.
- Alex Ferguson
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
- Fanny Burney
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
- William Hazlitt
Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.
- Timothy F Cahill
It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.
- Ken Caminiti
People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.
- Will Carling
An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
- Elliott Carter
Marla dug her fingernails into the palms of her hands as she watched the Coyotes struggle, without success, to make up the twelve-point deficit. It was hot in the arena, and the players were perspiring heavily. Neal was substituting often in order to give them water, but the heat was wearing them down, and the Cougars managed to outscore the Coyotes seventeen to two at the opening of the second half.
- Barbara Casey
With what can we feed the soul in the world of emptiness other than the player?
- Sorin Cerin
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
After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.
- Brandi Chastain
I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music.
- Brian Christian
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
- Ty Cobb
The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.
- David Cone
Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed.
- Malcolm Cowley
I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.
- Michael Jordan
I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.
- Novak Djokovic
To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.
- Snoop Dogg
You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.
- Tony Dorsett
Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.
- Milan Kundera
I sometimes have the feeling that her entire life was merely a continuation of her mother's, much as the course of a ball on the billiard table is merely the continuation of the player's arm movement.
- Milan Kundera
I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.
- Dennis Eckersley
It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.
- John Elway
When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.
- Julius Erving
Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.
- Rio Ferdinand
You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.
- Mike Figgis
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
- Edward Fitzgerald
It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.
- Guy Forget
One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.
- Gayle Forman
I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
- John Wooden
I think there's a real hunger for people speaking truth to power. Like, there's a little minority now that's saying you sounded like an asshole and a whiner. But that's just the player-hating fringe. I wouldn't worry about it.
- Jonathan Franzen
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
- Hayden Fry
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
- William Gaddis
In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces... Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players.
Petyr Baelish
- George R R Martin
Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.
- Paul Gascoigne
It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.
- Ryan Giggs
What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.
- Ryan Giggs
The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.
- Roger Goodell
What is true of the NFL is that it has been well-managed over the years. And that has been beneficial to the fans, it's been beneficial to the game itself, it's been beneficial to the players, coaches and everyone involved.
- Roger Goodell
It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.
- Jonny Greenwood
What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.
- Alan Hansen
Don't hate the player; change the game
- Steve Harvey
I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
- Whitey Herzog
Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!
- T F Hodge
Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
- Paul Hogan
Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
- Elbert Hubbard
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
- Thomas Huxley
We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
- Allen Iverson
The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.
- Jaromir Jagr
OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.
- Craig Johnston
I think the Commissioner is taking the steps necessary to give the game back to the players and the fans and hopefully take the league to the next level.
- Cobi Jones
I'm not paying you for the player you used to be, I'm paying you for the player you are right now.
- Michael Lewis
First of all, let me say thank you sir for the opportunity to scrub your jockstrap with my personal toothbrush. Of all the players on the Congressional softball team, you are by far the sweatiest.
- Jarod Kintz
I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.
- Al Kaline
I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.
- Robbie Keane
There existed very long saxophones from years ago. The player sat on their chair like a cellist; that same sort of feeling to it as well - unlike for example the way a harpist would be: the whole act differing in a very fundamental sense. Although harpists are fine. There is nothing to be said against harpists by any means whatsoever.
- James Kelman
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
- Ralph Kiner
Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
- W P Kinsella
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
- Bill Klem
The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.
- Jurgen Klinsmann
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.
- Richard Krajicek
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
- Vladimir Kramnik
A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.
- Guy Lafleur
The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.
- Guy Lafleur
The players have to come and play. Today we did.
- Bill Laimbeer
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
- Blaine Lee
Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again.
- Mario Lemieux
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
Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
- Ivan Lendl
But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.
- Ivan Lendl
I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.
- Alan Lewis
You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.
- Alan Lewis
I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.
- Alan Lewis
That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
- Jamal Lewis
Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
- Bob Lilly
They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
- Ted Lindsay
The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
- Gary Lineker
When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.
- Scott Lynch
You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
- Karl Malone
You didn't just write the play, Bertie," Peaseblossom said suddenly. "You ordered the Players about, shouted, and threw an artistic hissy fit. Do you know what that makes you?"
"A temperamental fusspot?" Mustardseed guessed.
"Crazier than a bag full of crazy?" Moth said.
"Close," Peaseblossom said. "It makes her a Director.
- Lisa Mantchev
The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.
- Don Mattingly
The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.
- Gene Mauch
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
- Evelyn Waugh
Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders serve an important purpose, the real contest involves players on the field or on the court of life. We must not go through life acting only as enthusiastic cheerleaders available for hire; we must be anxiously and personally engaged.
- Neal A Maxwell
I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.
- Will Mcdonough
I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.
- John Mcenroe
Sing a song of suspense in which the players die.
Four and twenty ravens in an Edgar Allan Pie.
When the pie was broken, the ravens couldn't sing.
Their throats had been sliced open by Stephen, the new King.
The King was in his writing house, stifling a laugh
While his queen was in a tizzy of her bloody Lovecraft.
When the dead maid got the garden for her rank as royal whore,
King's shovel made it double and he married nevermore.
- Jessica Mchugh
I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.
- Rory Mcilroy
I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.
- Mark Messier
As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.
- Mark Messier
Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.
- Yukio Mishima
When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.
- Shigeru Miyamoto
I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
- Shigeru Miyamoto
People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields.
- Shigeru Miyamoto
Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
- Jay Mohr
Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.
- Helen Wills Moody
The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.
- Helen Wills Moody
Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.
- Christopher Moore
As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.
- Ian Mortimer
The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.
- Li Na
Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.
- David Nalbandian
What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.
- Graham Nelson
A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.
- Graham Nelson
The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.
- Greg Norman
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
- Adam Oates
When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.
- Tom Osborne
I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.
- Stuart Pearce
I am nothing without the players.
- Stuart Pearce
I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.
- Mike Piazza
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.
- Steven Pinker
Everyone knows the game is about the players.
- Mike Quade
It's important we win and because of the players we have we should win some matches in style.
- Jamie Redknapp
You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.
- Jamie Redknapp
I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look.
- Claudio Reyna
There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.
- Jerry Rice
But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players.
- Graham Roberts
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
- Brooks Robinson
People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
- Frank Robinson
I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
- Andy Rooney
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
- Pete Rose
I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
- Darrell Royal
Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.
- Pete Rozelle
I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.
- Joe Sakic
You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.
- Joe Sakic
I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.
- Joe Sakic
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
- Esapekka Salonen
If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
- Irwin Shaw
But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue.
- Teddy Sheringham
In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.
- Gordon Smith
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
- Red Smith
But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.
- Steve Spurrier
But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.
- Leigh Steinberg
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
- Wilhelm Steinitz
With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.
- Michael Strahan
Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.
- John Terry
Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.
- Joe Theismann
I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.
- Isaiah Thomas
I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
- Isaiah Thomas
Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.
- John Thorn
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
- John Thorn
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
- John Thorn
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.
- John Thorn
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
- Fay Vincent
All the cameras shifted from the players to me.
- Lesley Visser
It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
- Dick Vitale
The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!
- Sid Waddell
I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.
- Arsene Wenger
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
- James Whistler
I feel for the players.
- Vanna White
You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.
- Sue Wicks
I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.
- Lenny Wilkens
When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.
- Douglas Wood
We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
- Sam Wood
I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to.
- Jennifer Wyatt
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