Play Quotes - Page 168

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.

I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.

For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.

You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don't make a big deal out of an easy shot.

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

Messi or Ronaldo best player in the world? In the world, I would say Ronaldo. Messi is from another planet.

Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player.

Darren Fletcher is the type of player who would walk over hot coals to play for his country, and he has done

There's going to be good plays that happen and bad plays that happen, but at the end of the day, when you have the chance to hit a big play, you have to hit it.

So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a great era of basketball. I watched so much of that. That just helped me be a student of the game and pick up any moment. It's the 10,000 hour rule. You're just trying to master your craft.

Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move.

I can't be arsed with game players. I'm more 'I like you, do you like me? Let's go and do something about it.' I'm a very straightforward person like that.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.

To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.

Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play.