Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?
Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.
I was never much of a bass player.
It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.
It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make a decision.
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.
Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.
I had people who were around me, people that I put a lot of trust in that sort of messed me over. So after that I said, only I can look back over my life and say I was responsible for whom I hired. I was responsible for how I managed my money. So I decided I wanted to do it myself. I understood the business of football. And because I can understand the business of football, I decided it's the best decision for me to be an agent. It made the most sense and I think a lot of players are opening their eyes to it as well.
The Republican establishment, the Democrat establishment agree and accept that the media is an equal player in the ruling class. Trump has blown all of that out the window. As such, the normal ways that people in politics are controlled, the normal way that people are contained - the ways people are promoted, punished, destroyed, what have you - are all out the window where Trump is concerned. And therefore the media is considered by the ruling class to be one of the great leveling factors.
Donald Trump has the media wrapped around his little finger. And this is a contributing factor to why so many people are bothered and upset, because even in the Republican establishment, the media is looked at as a legitimate player in the power arrangement of politics.
I saw a survey and it is that NFL fans are fed up with listening to players talk about politics.
I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.
It is said in sporting circles that great players leave the game a year too early rather than a year too late.
It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team.
I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.
As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.
I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.
I started to really believe in myself, and my abilities, when I won the World Under-10 championship in Doral, Florida. I was nine and saw for the first time that I was amongst the best players in the world for my age. This was a massive confidence-builder for me.
I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.
Time is of the essence, The crowd and players Are the same age always, But the man in the stand, Is older every season.
You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.
Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.
The most starstruck I've been is when I met Sol Campbell when he was a Tottenham Hotspur player. I don't get starstruck by actors I work with, because you have some sort of relationship with them. Like, I worked with Tom Cruise [on Interview With The Vampire], so if I saw him again I'd speak to him as an actor. Although he might not be interested in talking to me.
I talk to players all the time.
On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: 'He was definitely the player to be named later.'
