There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.
You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it’s not what you do, but the way you’re doing it and in the end that’s all that we have.
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I’m so grateful that actually became a reality – and it became a reality in a small town.
I’m a Scrabble nut, and I need something to do while I’m travelling. Scrabble keeps me occupied, I play against myself. I have a high score of 718 that I’m always trying to beat. I’m a good player. You don’t want to play me for money, that’s for sure.
I’m a championship handball player. I’m a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I’m really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
Every player would like to go and win loads more, but not every player can.
As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He’s a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he’s half fish.
Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary – an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media player.
I think Messi is the best player in the world.
I buy records – vinyl. I have a record player at home.
You can’t quantify everything a player does to win games.
If there’s anything I can’t stand, it’s the cliche of the female handler who’s always talking through the radio with your player, telling you where to go and what to do with a sexy voice. It’s such a horrible, horrible cliche. You just get so tired of it. It’s like, is this all she’s ever going to be?
Yes, process and preparations are the most important for me as a player. If preparations are not great, that tends to affect performance. When preparations are perfect you are not searching for results but only counting on performance.
It’s that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.
I’ve been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
Either a player accepts competition or they say they absolutely need to play. For a player to have an open door, I have to have, at the same position, an element that is just as good or even better.
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
When you watch chess, you don’t see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.
So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.
Game 7 of a Championship Series sucks the emotion out of a player, particularly if you have to stroll home a loser when it’s over.
I don’t look like the stereotypical darts player, do I?
I hope I’m building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.
I always try to see my weakness, work on it, to be better as a person and a player, everything.
To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.
I wasn’t really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.
During my time with Maccabi Tel Aviv, I learned how to play better by using my head. I was given the chance of playing a more forward position so I could score many goals. In short, I have become a player who can score goals and win games.
I’m just trying to be the best basketball player I can be, you know, move the ball.
I want the kids to know that it’s not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the NBA. I just want to influence them to work hard and do whatever they want to do in life, whether it’s to be a basketball player or scientist… if they believe in themselves, they can do anything.
I don’t mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That’s all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.
As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.
Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he’s a great player, and what you’ve seen with him is he’s gotten better every year.
Every player needs to use their voice to shake up things.
I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
Dennis Bergkamp is, in my eyes, still ‘The Master’. The fact that he never won the Champions League, the European Championship, or the World Cup does not take anything away from his greatness as a player.
I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.
Someone has to be the villain. I’m the most villainized player right now. People don’t like me.
As a player, it’s better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.
I have a goal to be the best player every time I touch that floor. Just be the best me.
Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
I was born in Dortmund and grew up here, so you become automatically a black and yellow. I played here for many years in the youth ranks, but at first I did not have the chance to become a professional football player at BVB and to realize my dream.
I can back myself as a longer version player.
I don’t want to infringe on Alec Baldwin’s territory, but I’m a pretty darn good ‘Words With Friends’ player.
I think of myself as a great player, but the fans have to decide whether that’s true.
