To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk’s energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
I’m very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They’ve made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.
Nobody wants to give up good players.
The biggest memory I have is the 1984 European Cup final against Roma and my ‘spaghetti legs’ routine during the penalty shoot-out that won us the trophy. People said I was being disrespectful to their players, but I was just testing their concentration under pressure. I guess they failed that test.
I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don’t know who’s trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.
Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.
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.
I dressed more like a pop star, I suppose, rather than the traditional blazer and tall trousers other players went for.
I think it’s a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra – especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.
It’s unfortunate that you don’t see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.
It’s getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.
Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.
I am supposed to set an example to young players.
It’s something that jazz has gotten away from, and it’s unfortunate. Players aren’t physical anymore.
You define great players as guys that are out there grinding, battling every day with their team.
A lot of the major players in the 1960s were the same as the 1940s and 1950s – Hitchen’s ‘Sleep with Slander.’ Armstong’s ‘Lemon in the Basket,’ which is a fusion of the political assassination thriller and a family drama. And Hughes’s ‘The Expendable Man.’
Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant’s book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
There’s no doubt that there is star treatment. It’s discussed in the meetings. Obviously, people don’t pay an enormous amount of money to sit in those courtside seats to see players like Kobe, LeBron, Shaq – all the greats – sit on the bench and be in foul trouble.
All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.
Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.
If players want to protest, let them do it on their own time and on their own dime.
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
Teams are already marking me individually: they are putting two players there on my side. Unfortunately, it’s difficult, but I’m doing what I can. I’m facing them. I’m making assists. I’m trying to score my goals.
African soccer has grown to the extent that the majority of its players are playing for European teams and that is very good as they are becoming role models for the youngsters on the continent.
We want to progress and ultimately win something. You can’t do that with 11, 12 or 13 players, you need a squad.
It would mean a lot to me to get into the Hall of Fame, to be grouped with some of the greatest players in history.
When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.
I am inspired by all kinds of players and singers.
Not many people make it out of San Antonio. I can’t even count on my hand how many NBA players are from San Antonio.
Since I was five or six years old, I just wanted to be a professional football player. I wanted to play against the best players. I wanted to play in big stadiums in front of big crowds, and I was desperate to play for my country one day, and thankfully, I was lucky enough that happened.
Sometimes having the best players is not enough to win the Champions League.
Taste is changing, style is changing, and players’ abilities are changing.
Players very widely disagree with me about what’s hard and what’s easy. and in a way, ‘I won, but it was a fight’ is the best compliment a game can receive.
He who gets the best players usually wins.
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
They fire coaches before players.
My dad is a huge Habs fan. He’d always be yelling at the TV and screaming at the players. I just started watching with him once, and I became a big fan.
I was lucky to start playing guitar in the Eighties when so many great players were around to inspire me, like Yngwie Malmsteen, Van Halen and especially Dave Murray and Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden.
I have no distributor… it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.
I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.
You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it’s hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.
Own goals happen to the best of players.
Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.
You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
I’m just very happy that the Celtics really take the time and they consider us not only as players, but as people, and people that have families.
I think tennis is going towards the direction of powerful, hard hitters, and that’s what us tall people are. We are trying to play very aggressive; we’re trying to make a lot of winners, and, I mean, I don’t know. That’s what tall players kind of do.
True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I’ve not lost sight of that.
I always say that Madrid must have the best players, as this is the best club in the world. But it is not for me to say which players should be signed.
I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players – naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.
Every coach has to put himself in his club and to try to become a really important coach for his club. The most important thing is that the club can be happy, the fans can be happy, and the players can be happy with your work. This must be our task. Then, if you are No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, this is not important.
I am really irked by healthy NBA players resting. I really don’t understand it. Players in the past have played all season for years. I just don’t love it. I feel like it hurts the integrity and competitiveness of the game. It’s got nothing to do with the TV partners; it’s about cheating the fans.
When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I’d rather play with.
Physically, the top players are on a different level to other players, and that’s why they’re on the top.
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
I had the chance to play with Alan Shearer to join the list of class players I’d played with at a young age at Leeds – the Vidukas, Smiths, Kewells, and Woodgates.
