Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the NBA to another level.
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.
I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!
You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.
If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.
And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.
What we do at LSU is to develop players and make them better.
Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.
That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.
When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.
Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton.
The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.
When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.
I think there are some players born to play ball.
I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.
Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation is spontaneous melody. In order to improvise, a player first needs to have memorized and analyzed the harmonic structure of so many pieces.
I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do
I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there’s media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
