Player Quotes - Page 125

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.

I love the introduction of international managers and players into the Premier League. However Manchester United's principles through their history had always been: they will appoint a British manager, there will always promote youth, they will always play a certain style of football, they will always look to entertain. So to me the idea of appointing a British manager, David Moyes, appointing somebody who deserved that opportunity to step up, was the right principle.

I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I felt. I didn't mince words, so to speak. If I felt bad, I let you know that I felt bad. If I felt you were playing sorry, I told you. If I was playing sorry, I told myself that. I came from an era when losing really hurt. I didn't see anything good about it.

It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked at chess as the ultimate test. So they thought, "Oh, if a machine can play chess, and beat strong players, set aside a world champion, that would be the sign of a dawn of the AI era." With all due respect, they were wrong.

There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.

It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.

We have to remember Damien Duff is one of the most good players in the Premiership

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes at the age of five (you would never guess though) and then I went on to join my local theatre group, Glantawe Players, at the age of eight and then Swansea Amateur Dramatics Society. I then joined the National Youth Music Theatre, so I really can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in Musical Theatre!

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.

For skills and tricks, Ronaldinho was the best player I've played with.

I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.

Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with Warcraft in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.