We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.
Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that.
When a player knows he is a slave he'll never give his employer his heart.
He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.
Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.
They just love to complain about me because I'm an American who gets more press than their Canadian players.
You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.
We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.
Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.
This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.
What is your position at the company? Right back.
Crosby is a great player, but I'd have to say Ovechkin, who is also a great player but doesn't have the same kind of support, and who does something great on almost every shift.
I've worked on the physical side and I think I'm a player that can do most things.
It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you.
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.
At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.
Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!
If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?
On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.
Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only comparison over time . . . played on the same courses for generations. All the best players are always there.
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
