Player Quotes - Page 67

I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.

I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

As a kid, I was a little self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone. A bad habit of mine used to be slouching. Eventually, I realized my height was something I couldn't control, so I might as well accept it. I've certainly turned it into a positive, because without my height I probably wouldn't be as good of a tennis player. It's a gift, and I've made something of it.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

The players themselves can be classified into two groups- the attractions and the entry fees.

It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet. It is purer than any dance because the actions of the players are not governed by music or crowded into a formula by a director. The movement is natural and unrehearsed and controlled only by the unexpected flight of the ball.

I've managed 25 years, and I can probably count on one hand players that I didn't really care for, and that's probably thousands of players that I've managed. I think that's pretty good. I love the players and I always will.

Slowing it all down and analyzing our mental approach is a surprisingly effective way of becoming a better player.

The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

I wanted to see if I could create something that is emotional between people. Existing games are about killing each other or killing something together. The idea of social emotion means people need to share feelings. At that moment, the players are in sync. The problem [with many games] is there's no chance to share emotion. Most of them are busy, [there are] explosions everywhere. So we got rid of all the background noise and we had to get rid of the guns.

You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

Jordan Henderson is a player who likes to do his business in the middle of the park.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

I need players to start thinking for themselves.

Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.

Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players.

He's not fit to lace my boots as a player. (on Kevin Keegan)