Player Quotes - Page 52

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

Do your best when no one is looking.

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players who are trying to improve their right hand dexterity get hung up by playing too many notes with the left hand.I hear a lot of players running whole scales from the sixth string to the first , and playing them really sloppy.Keeping it very basic-and using only a few notes-and playing slowly with perfect rhythm is a task in itself.

We've all seen talented young players who get to a certain level but there comes a point where that talent will only take you so far. The great players go away and work on extra things. They work harder on their skills, they start having early nights and they think about their diet and training. That is what takes them to the next level.

Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.

Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.