Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felipe Alou

Some players leaned on them. It should be a lot more relaxed.

Some players have to play and have to play well for us to be the team we want to be.

So the player tells the stewardess he didn't get enough to eat, either, and where was his $20.

Larry Bowa

There's a lot of sensitive players on that team,

There's a player that we like who we think could come available.

Absolutely. That's why they have to give him time, so he can get some players who can play up-tempo.

Mike Fisher

A lot of our top players are out right now and we haven't been able to find a way to score.

A lot of my players from Hancock who live in Santa Barbara,

A lot of players had to chime in.

They make every player around them better. What more can you say about a person.

Carlo Ancelotti

This continual rotation of players is very important to make everyone feel useful.

I tried experimenting, playing some players out of position.

I told the players that we've got the potential to do it, but the potential has got to be put into action. We've got to be able to make plays and have quality at-bats. I think our team is capable, but it remains to be seen.

Michael Chang

It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.

Justin Langer

For him to come out and say was very surprising as a modern-day player and for me, very disappointing and not in the spirit of how we should play Test cricket.

For me, he was the stand-out player of the game, no doubt. He is a star of the future.

The yen's rise and uncertainty over possible (dollar-supporting) intervention made players take a wait-and-see stance.

You need more than six or seven players on a team. You need all 12, and we've used all 12.

Joachim Loew

This is a shock for us and a tragedy for him. He's such an important player for us.

Ryne Sandberg

I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.

Russell Wilson

We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.

Roman Abramovich

Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results

Roger Federer

I'm shocked every time that I've reached so many finals or won against so many players or whatever record it is. It strikes me and makes me obviously very happy and very proud that I've been able to do it for so many years at the highest of levels.

Roger Federer

I'm at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don't freak out...I don't think we can call it a rivalry yet. There's just to many great players around.

Roger Federer

Early in my career, I had no consistency. Now I'm the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good.

Sabine Lisicki

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

Sonny Vaccaro

There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route.

Sonny Terry

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

Steve Kerr

I'm just thrilled for so many people. Our players, mostly, but the people in our organization - Rick Welts, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber and the whole group. It's just a phenomenal group of people. I think as a coach you just appreciate kind of the big picture a little bit more.

Steve Irwin

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.

Steve Jobs

When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.

Steve Jobs

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work

Stephen Potter

In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.