My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
Steve Nash

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.
Lee Konitz

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
Kurt Russell

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.
Curt Flood

We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made.
David Gill

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
Charlie Hunter

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.
James Iha

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.
Isiah Thomas

No band is special, no player royalty.
Krist Novoselic

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
Isiah Thomas

I was not a very good football player when I started out.
Lynn Swann

I was a guitar player first off.
Boz Scaggs

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
Oscar Robertson

I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me.
Dennis Bergkamp

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.
Brian McKnight

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.
Anna Kournikova

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
Herb Alpert

I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.
Guy Forget

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.
Brett Hull

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.
Paul Gascoigne