It is the universe where all rock players live- we all use distortion, overdrive, gain and saturation. I call it ‘fuzz.’
I think the best players in the world make the players around them better. And I’m always trying to do that.
LeBron James is one of the best players in the league – and one of the best players to ever play the game.
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess – players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
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.
I’ll miss the competitive side and the camaraderie of being around the players and competing each and every day.
There are so many really good players in the men’s game that no one person can dominate year after year.
The math works. Over the course of a season, there’s some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There’s so much data that you can predict: individual players’ performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
I think Liverpool have a long history with many great players. I hope one day to be up there with those great players. I’ll try my best to write some history here.
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.
I’m busy working on every aspect of my game – defense, shooting, rebounding – but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.
People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they’re wrong.
Everybody who has ever played for Bayern knows how good this club is for its players. We are all grateful to be playing for Bayern.
I like to watch the great players, the ones who are technically good and understand the game. I try to see how they move.
I won’t tolerate players not giving everything they’ve got.
As a coach, we are not magicians; we work with the players and look to improve them and give them every opportunity, but if you are not creating or scoring goals over a consistent period of time, it is difficult for you as a coach.
The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
I think the Lakers are a legacy franchise. Players know when they come here, this is the ultimate platform.
It’s football, you work with humans and humans make mistakes. We will do everything in our power to prepare the players so they know to make the right decision at the right times.
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.
It’s fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
Each NFL team has its own policy about their own players dating their own cheerleaders. And in the Raiders there is no policy against it, though it is not encouraged. Yes, there are successful relationships between players and Raiderettes.
From the time when I started out, the best players around then were Roberto Baggio and Ryan Giggs.
There are already gay players in the NFL and have been for a while.
I like to study everything: the way to be dangerous when you are attacking; what the players should do when you don’t have the ball; where they should be. The tactics you tell the players to follow come from all this study.
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50’s and 60’s and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
If you want to be one of the best players, everything is hard.
But I think the image that’s thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
God gave me all this; why waste the talent that he gave me? Why not go full throttle with it all and try to become in the class with the greatest players that ever played the game? That’s just a great feeling.
All us players do that – looking to play, to fight for a place.
It’s hard to sit back and just go through your whole career, because everything’s always moving so fast. But the odd milestone is always a nice moment, and when you look at the previous players to have hit those kind of milestones, it’s nice to be in that company.
I think players tend to get anxious if they’ve not really done things properly – like eating, resting or training. If you’re fully prepared you’ve got nothing to worry about – it’s just a game of football.
Community stuff is always important to me, it’s very important to the New Jersey Devils and the organization, so along with not just myself but the rest of the players on the team, it’s always a priority to be able to give back in the best way possible.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That’s three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.
I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.
There are more players on ‘Fallout Shelter’ than all of my games combined. That’s a little sobering at times. It’s not a good or bad thing.
If your best players are taking a shortcut, they’re going to have problems holding everyone else accountable and responsible.
The team with the best players wins.
The beginning of a career is hard for many players, often because of the ordinary day-to-day problems that football and life bring.
I actually don’t invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don’t have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.
The NBA is getting bigger. Basketball is getting better around the world. There are more players. There are better coaches around it, so that’s why there are more international players, not only Hispanic players, but from everywhere.
I talk a lot about Jackie MacMullan. Think about the trust and the equity Jackie has built with people in this game. When you watch her work, there is such a high level of respect given. It’s hard to describe it, but you can see it when players engage with her.
Michu and Van Persie are similar. They look alike. They are both tall, left-footed players. They are not fast, but they know when to make the runs.
I felt Arsenal had let a lot of players go. When Thierry left I felt it was time for me to do something different and challenging.
England have always had individually strong players, and I am a huge fan of Stevie Gerrard, who has the heart of a lion and is the icon of the modern footballer with his ability to attack and defend so well.
As you can probably tell, the push to develop talent in Africa is personal. I grew up there. I played there. I know how much talent there is. We have to concentrate on building facilities, establishing successful leagues and finding investors to help young players.
I love basketball players for what they do for their size – so graceful.
Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality.
People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don’t go any further than that.
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
Among players, coaches, people who know football, yes I feel I get recognition.
Players say going to a World Cup, it’s one of the best parts of their career, and I can’t wait.
There’s a line, players usually don’t cross it and coaches usually don’t cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had ’em. I’m not proud of those.
I get excited after I dunk. I yell and scream, but it’s not yelling and screaming at other players to show them up. It’s the way I play. What I do is have fun on the court.
I like to be funny. I can’t stay all the time focused, disciplined, controlled. Behaviour like that is impossible. If the players are too nervous before a game, I have to relax them, calm them.
No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.
You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you’ve got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people. And that’s the thing I try to get across to my players.
