Player Quotes

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.
Ritchie Blackmore

Great, Attitude, 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.
Venus Williams

Happen, Goal, Try

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
Brett Favre

Failure, Successful, Football

I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.
Brett Favre

Difference, Maker

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.
Brett Favre

Person, Sometimes, Team

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
Adam Oates

Work, Hypocrite, Wanted

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
Sidney Poitier

Month, Demand, Scripts

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.
Eric Davis

Good, Put, Lives

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Focus, Game, Play

Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
Ricky Williams

Football, Person, Passionate

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
Ricky Williams

Great, Yourself, Football

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.
Ricky Williams

Someone, Football, College

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.
Ricky Williams

Human, Football, Treat

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.
Ricky Williams

Travel, Football, Person

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
Evelyn Waugh

Money, Lost, Old

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.
Bryan Cranston

Actor, Period, Hardest

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
Suzi Quatro

Car, Everything, Else

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
Jack Nicklaus

Winning, Play, Chance

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
Jack Nicklaus

Person, Control, Play

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.
Paul Gascoigne

Control, Team, Decisions

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

Time, Great, Two

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
Ian Anderson

Happy, Mind, Wish

If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
Dan Marino

Good, Great, Best

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.
Tim Duncan

Time, Sorry, Made

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
Anatoly Karpov

Strong, Human, Champion

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
Shaquille O'Neal

Pain, Football, Basketball

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
Dennis Rodman

Dreams, Him, Asking

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
Dennis Rodman

Great, Smart, Game

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
Imran Khan

Wanted, Ambition

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
Mickey Mantle

Good, Someone, Brain

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