Player Quotes

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Life, Nothing, Idiot

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire

Life, Alone, Game

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
Michael Jordan

Greatest, Basketball, Perfect

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
Michael Jordan

Time, Game, Basketball

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

Good, Great, Hockey

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
Michael Jordan

Best, Eyes, Scared

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi

Black, Win, Inside

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
John Wooden

Important, Person, Basketball

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi Hendrix

Hate, Guitar, Put

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
Hillary Clinton

Father, Football, Times

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney

Wanted, Minds, Fat

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
Jason Kidd

Basketball, Friends, Late

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce

Game, Enjoy, Chance

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Casey Stengel

Hurt, Woman, Baseball

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Honore de Balzac

Husband, Night, Same

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Sam Snead

Great, Defeat, Ability

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Thomas Huxley

Nature, Game, Universe

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.
LeBron James

Best, Win, Bring

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Harry S. Truman

President, House, United

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan

Ordinary, Believed, Imagined

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.
Gordon Ramsay

Yourself, Wanted, Winner

If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
Kim Kardashian

Amazing, Game, Basketball

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

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.
Wayne Gretzky

Life, Love, Game

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
Lou Holtz

Sports, Football, Play

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
Lou Holtz

Agent, Dependent, Damage

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
Jose Mourinho

Love, Game, Football

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
Benjamin Carson

Football, Basketball, Same

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best, Him, Team

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.
Steve Martin

Music, Great, Listen

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