Player Quotes - Page 183

What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.

Listen more to the other players on the bandstand than you do to yourself.

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

I am very much a Red Sox fan; I can name you more players than you could possibly imagine. It's just part of who I am.

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

As part of the process, there are a lot of different ways to evaluate players. There are a number of different companies and things out there that do different things; that have different ways of evaluating and those types of tests and so forth.

There is always some element of competition. As and when more players show interest in a space, it endorses increasing demand. I have never taken competition as a treat.

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.

The coachs job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.

I'm a pretty easygoing guy. I'm not hard to get along with. I never had anybody that I had trouble with. On the other team, sometimes you don't like players because of the way they act, but then you get to know them and then they're very good people. But I never disliked anybody.

Personally, I prepare exactly the same for every game: I don't think, "I'm going to have to do extra here because of what they think of us." But if you're an England player you do tend to be told how much everyone hates you.

Some venues are more intimidating than others, but as professional players you enjoy the intimidating places more than the other kind.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that’s a risk we can’t take.

I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.