Top 50 Better Player Quotes

I don’t care what you do – baseball or politics – George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years – Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

If people’s opinion, whether they liked you or not, made you a better player then we’d all be out there on the charm offensive.

People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you’re ranked in about the top 50 you don’t earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.

Any footballer who understands space and time and positioning can become a better player because he knows how to receive the ball alone with time to play a pass or shoot.

I really want to make myself a better player.

If a better player comes along, I will try to persuade the club to get him in. Sometimes, you can do your business and all of a sudden something appears that you never expected to appear.

I’m trying to lead by example. But I’m definitely challenging myself to be a better player, the player I want to be.

I now have 10 years’ more experience from when I broke into the game. I can deal with disappointments easier, and all of that helps to make me a better player. It’s the same in any walk of life, in any job.

Neymar will leave Barca fans speechless. He could become an even better player than he was during the Confederations Cup with Brazil. He’ll easily adapt to the style of the team and will be very happy there.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

When you get into the habit of leaving a space, you become a much better player for it. If you’ve got an expressive style, and can express your emotions through your guitar, and you’ve got a great tone, it creates a lot of tension for the audience. It’s all down to the feel thing.

It’s about being a better player today than you were yesterday.

When I came over, there was a lot of criticism that I was too young to go to England. I just wanted to take that experience and be a better player.

I just kind of do my own thing, which has made me feel like a better player, a better pro because I’m in control of it. I don’t have anybody who is pushing me to do something – I’m pushing myself.

I just worry about every year trying to add something to my game, come back a better player.

I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while, I realized I’d always stink. And that’s when I really started to enjoy the game.

It was a great two years in Italy, I played a lot of games and gained experience in a different league. So you pick up new stuff, new ways of doing things, on and off the pitch, and I think that has made me a better player, and also more mature mentally.

I always try to find something to motivate me to be a better player.

I’m a guy that a lot of people look up to. I haven’t always handled situations the right way. That’s why I have to continue to grow and be a better player, a better leader.

I’m sick at myself for not winning more. But I am always trying to find ways to make myself a better player. I am not just turning up to make up the numbers.

We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.

Going to Stade Francais will not just make me a better player but make me a better player for England.

The biggest thing for me is that I’ve managed to work through some difficult times, and those moments always make you stronger. It makes you a stronger person and a better player.

I’ve become a much better player, so I feel like my voice is heard and taken for what it’s worth a little bit more.

I learned a lot of things that made me be a better player and have more of a variety on the pitch.

I feel so fortunate to have great coaching. Coaches that have taught me great habits and taught me great things about basketball and life, but I’ve always played for coaches who have held me accountable and that’s made me a better player and person.

I think, for me, I’m a player that wants the puck, and I’m a better player when I have it.

It’s really important to have someone in competition for your position. Because that’s the way to make each other a better player.

I couldn’t ever be a better player than I was in 1988.

I know I can be a way better player as a shortstop than I can at third.

Melo has a chance to be a better player than me, for sure. I feel at the same age, he’s better than me. In real time, I don’t think he’s better than me. But I’m the big brother so I’m always going to have that edge over him.

Every player should look to build on the previous season and do everything they can to make themselves a better player than they were the previous year.

Missing the 1978 World Cup made Maradona an even better player, as he showed on the following year at the Youth World Cup, and he never looked back.

I can still improve, and that’s what I try to do every day and train strong, and as I said, I try to improve every day and make myself a better player, and that’s what I am trying to do.

As I get older, I think I’m going to continue to be a better player and a better captain.

Well I think in all the thirty years I’ve been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it’s really, it’s not about what I’ve achieved and if I’ve become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.

Playing with Michael Jordan would be a great opportunity for me. I would have someone around I could learn a lot from. I look up to him as a player and as a person, and that would make me a better player and person.

I’ve tried to improve – defending, attacking, pressing, trying to think before a game, to be more clever, do something before the defender can think of it, to become a better player. That makes me feel good, that hunger to improve in every way.

As long as I’m playing week in week out, I’m going to become a better player.

If I can adapt to different tactics I think I will be a better player.

You learn more every season and that enables you to be a better player.

When I was young, living in Belgium, my parents spoke Portuguese, we have the Brazilian passion at home, I played with PSV in Holland, you experience all these different cultures and you get used to living with that. I think it has made me a better player and a better person to get out of my comfort zone.

I like to try to learn from my past and be a better person because of it. Better player, better teammate. Better everything.

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I’m more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

Obviously you try to learn from the past and your mistakes and how you can become a better player as well as a better person.

I was able to take some time off with my family, my friends, get a better look at what I can do to be a better player on the court. It’s been a good little process for me.

Whatever I can do to help me be a better player, I’ll do it.

The biggest thing is becoming a better player and proving your doubters wrong.

I’m sure Mourinho will make me a better player and a better person.

I had a big step here in San Antonio, good help, great work. I learned a lot. Everybody helped me, great and smart people. They helped me a lot and made me better player.