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

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

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.
Sparky Anderson

All I wanted to be was a player.
Franco Harris

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
Branch Rickey

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
Branch Rickey

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
Branch Rickey

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
Shelley Winters

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.
Jeanne Moreau

It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
Barry Bonds

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
Ed O'Neill

I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented.
Mick Taylor

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
Alexander Alekhine

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?
Marcus Allen

Every football player knows when his time is up.
Red Grange

I'm not a good guitar player.
Adam Jones

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.
Guy Forget

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

In cinema, the leading player is the director.
Ben Kingsley

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
Casey Stengel