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

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
Jackson Browne

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
Sally Ride

I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.
Don Shula

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.
Frank Lampard

Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are.
Frank Lampard

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

If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
Roberto Clemente

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Roberto Clemente

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
Sammy Hagar

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.
Reggie Jackson

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.
Brad Paisley

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
Barry Sanders

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
Mario Lemieux

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
Mario Lemieux

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
Eric Idle

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.
Brian Eno

When it was time for a player to go, he went.
Cal Hubbard

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
Hayden Fry

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.
Tim McGraw