Player Quotes - Page 5

What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

Players play, tough players win.

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

Each team always has that one power player, even Carmelo. Those are the guys who would represent the logo.

It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.

I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

I didn’t fall in love with it just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it because I’ve got guys like this – like these guys every single day that push me to be the best that I can be.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed down the feel of winning, of being the absolute best, which isn't equal to any other team.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Cristiano is better than Messi, without a doubt. He's more of an all-round player

The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player.

My foot, for a football player, is very beautiful!

Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players

I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look.

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.