Top 530 Player Quotes

If you want to make money playing poker, find a game with a few suckers, fish, donkeys, live ones, or whatever you choose to call a bad player. Just don’t let that sucker be you.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

When you get punched, you have to get up. You have no other choice. If you don’t, you’re not going to grow, you’re not going to get better as a player.

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the ‘writing style’ of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.

Uber has an information advantage, a computational advantage. There’s massive structural advantages to the player who’s smartest about how to deploy cars, where to deploy cars, how to adjust pricing dynamics, how to ensure supply of drivers – the party that understands best the behavior of riders.

I’m just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That’s it. That’s all I’m thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I’m just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

The coach told me that he has a lot of respect for me, and I am a player who has the ability to do anything I like – to score with both feet, to head well and to pass. To hear such words from a man like Voller gives me a lot of confidence and motivation.

I’m still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

The ‘Maybe Memories’ album I remember having and listening until it broke. I remember it skipped one day; two or three songs wouldn’t play on my CD player because I listened to it so much.

I think when people ask me, ‘Who’s your favourite player?’ it’s hard for me to answer.

To get the PFA Player of the Year is a fantastic honour. It’s the highest honour you can get because it’s voted by your fellow peers.

I don’t want to define New York Red Bull as one player, or one manager.

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

I remember as a young player I had this dream of playing in the NBA.

I’ve always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

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.

I played tennis. My older brother, Joseph, was a cello player, and I played the cello, but he was better than me at the cello, and he was also a better tennis player than me, so I was always like, ‘I wish there was something that only I did!’

Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we’ll both play completely differently. That’s the beauty of being a musician.

For me it’s like really exciting to see all my fans showing this love to me. So it’s a responsibility to me to go out there every game and try to be a good player try to show good things because my fans expect that I do something special.

I’m definitely a guitar player, but it’s the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

People know me. I’m not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I’m not going to belong on Comedy Central. I’ll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both – winning and losing – get easier.

Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it’s a great team sport, so I don’t get carried away with a bunch of accolades.

I don’t care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

I’ve always wanted to become a professional soccer player.

I was a player who got the job done, and I think I’m kind of maybe thought of like that as a manager.

Two years ago, of course, I was just a rookie and listened to everybody. In a way I am still a rookie. I’m only 23 and I’ll be surrounded by great players who have played in a lot more Ryder Cups than myself. But the rankings say I am the best player at the moment and so that brings a responsibility.

Now that we’re seeing that you can be a really masculine football player and a homosexual, you can be a really girly boy who likes to dress in women’s clothes, I think that it’s just been adding to the whole discussion about homosexuality and society.

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave ’em a bit of thigh.

I’m an ardent tennis player. I’m like an overenthusiastic child out there and I’ve damaged my back. It’s not that it’s crippling pain, more mental anguish.

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

I remember Ron Atkinson used to play in the sessions at Manchester United when he was the manager. Rated himself as a player.

I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

I thought I was a pretty decent soccer player. I’m not.

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

Every player has a chip on their shoulder about something.

When I was a minor league player, my goal was to be a major leaguer. It’s no different as a minor league manager.

When you’re losing by 20 to 30 points night in and night out, that’s no fun. You can’t accept that as a player.

When a player joins El Tri, he doesn’t want to do things the wrong way.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

I learned this lesson very quickly when I came into the NBA: Almost all the media and accolades go to the No. 1 guy. But if you’re building a team, the most important player is the No. 2 guy. Because if the No. 2 guy wants to be the No. 1 guy, you have a major problem.

I think I’ve become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

I’m a fan of LeBron James. I’m not really a team fan; I’m just a fan of one player.

If you are serious about being a professional chess player, do know what your parents think and what their expectations are from you.

I’m a football player, you know? My film talks for me.

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Everybody knows that LeBron James is my favorite basketball player and I love the way he goes to the rack.

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

Consistency is most important in international level and once you have it, you become a different player.

Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid two years. It was me playing acoustic and rhythm electric guitar, a bass player, a drummer and a lead guitar player. For a couple of years, we sounded like the Foo Fighters.

I am the most loyal player money can buy.

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn’t think I could pull that off. I’m a little short to be a basketball player!

I lost a lot. It was almost like I was a retired player where I lost all of my athleticism. I lost everything. Being able to get it back, step by step, little bit at a time, it was like surprising myself.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

It’s a blessing to be an NBA player and to be in a position to help other people.

I want to improve as a player, but it’s all about the team.

I am an avid tennis player.

Watching football is such an underrated thing to help you grow as a player.