I'm stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me." I'm not hitting on you," he protested. No?" Believe me, you'd know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn't be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms. - Nicholas Sparks When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do. - Diana Lopez By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply. - Jeanmarie Le Pen I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality. - Gabrielle Reece I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time. - Danny Strong

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. - Herb Alpert I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument. - Bill Frisell Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. - Wynton Marsalis My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent. - Pat Metheny I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy. - Jo Stafford I'm a terrible trumpet player. - Ray Stevens

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. - Spa...

I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional. - Jennie Finch If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second. - Danny Masterson

I'd read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he's their idol. - Melina Marchetta Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession. - Ian Botham Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve. - Lorrie Fair Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be. - Mia Hamm Y...

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player. - Kirsty Gallacher He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school. - Ryan Giggs The width of neck and shoulder suggested a rugby player, the broken nose confirmed it. Which shows just how wrong you can be as he never played the game in his life. - Spike Milligan

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since. - Leo Kottke I didn't have a record player. - Harrison Birtwistle I hate hearing other people taking shits. Still, I've got nothing else to listen to on my record player but these crude recordings I made in my youth. - Jarod Kintz Last night as your breathing settled into sleep what I heard was the half-forgotten sound, the velvet rush and hiss, the automatic click as the record player's arm runs out, is brushed away at the record's centre, the pulse of its subsiding oddly comforting. 33 1/3 rpm. The knowledge that when the music ends, there will not be silence. - John Knowles I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and pea...

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action. - Chris Moneymaker Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player. - Tim Page I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table. - Jennifer Tilly

I am not a player. - Marat Safin I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user. - Ellen Hopkins I am not a player anymore. - Michael Irvin 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 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

I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles. - Stephen Baker You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL. - Roger Goodell If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life. - John Madden Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there. - Rick Reilly

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 I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls. - Tabitha Soren

I am not a player. - Marat Safin I am not a player anymore. - Michael Irvin 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

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name. - Bryan Adams In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. - David Amram I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. - Ken Burns Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream. - Geezer Butler Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. - Stanley Clarke There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same t...

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. - Sherman Alexie As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me. - Stephen King ...it was another year or two before I discovered that drat and draft were different words. During that same period I remember believing that details were dentals and that a bitch was an extremely tall woman. A son of a bitch was apt to be a basketball player. When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank (27-8). - Stephen King When...

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success. - Greg Akcelrod The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field. - Shaun Alexander There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. - Sherman Alexie Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. - Sherman Alexie I stopped looking around when I heard a soft "mew" and I looked toward Tate to see he was crouched. He straightened and turned to me. I froze and stared. Tatum Jackson, ex-pro football player, ex-cop, now bartender/bounty hunter, tall, beautiful and more man than I'd ever exper...

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 sh...