Player Quotes - Page 83

I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.

It's only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He's almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

If it happens that I score 50 goals, it'll be awesome. Any player in the league would like 50. But I don't keep thinking every day that I have to score in order to reach 50 goals .

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

The most important part of a RPG is the player feeling like they are taking the role of a character in a fully realised fantasy world. They can explore, visit various towns and places, talk to people, customise their character, collect various items, and defeat monsters. The story is not the focus of the experience and is only there to make the atmosphere of the fantasy world more interesting and engaging during the course of the game.

The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

There are times when players have got to feel that if they work hard and they give everything, they get the carrot, but they also need to know that there's a stick. If performance, discipline or attitude isn't good enough, there is a bit of the stick and there will be a punishment.

For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

Psychology plays a big part but I always say psychology will only be a differentiator when the players are of equal technical strength.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.