Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Moya

I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.

Carlos Beltran

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

Carlos Gonzalez

We have a lot of young players and some veteran players who make you feel good and give you a lot of tips. They always want to make sure you're ready to play.

Carlos Castaneda

Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Alan Shearer

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

Alan Shearer

For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak.

Alan Shearer

One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.

Alan Shearer

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

Alan Lewis

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

Charlie Hunter

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

So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.

Charlie Manuel

I won't quit on a player who doesn't quit on himself.

Bob Sanders

When another player screws up, I kind of erase it and make a good play.

Bill McCartney

You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.

Bill Maher

If anybody is so mad at Vladimir Putin, you know what they could do? They could advocate for a gas tax. He gets all his leverage from selling gas and oil. If we had a gas tax that made that less palatable, he would be less of a player on the world stage.

Bill Belichick

As part of the process, there are a lot of different ways to evaluate players. There are a number of different companies and things out there that do different things; that have different ways of evaluating and those types of tests and so forth.

Bill Belichick

I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.

Bill Belichick

You definitely go through a stage, most coaches do, where you see a good player and you get enamored, you really like what the player does, but then when you put him into your system, it's not quite the same player that he was in another system. He has some strengths, but you cant utilize all those strengths. If you try to utilize all his strengths, you end up weakening a lot of other players who are already in your system.

Bill Wyman

Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

Bill Walton

Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.

Bill Walton

Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

Bill Walton

Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.

Bill Walton

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

We're starting to do some things but we can't let up. It's a do-or-die situation, so the players are playing with a sense of urgency.

We're going to get a player who's going to at least compete.

Bobby Moore

Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen.

Avril Lavigne

I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out.

Barry Zito

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

Ban Ki-moon

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.

Diana Taurasi

Every generation has their own great players. Who's to say that anyone's better than Cheryl Miller or Nancy Lieberman? Whose anyone to say Michael Jordan is better than Oscar Robertson or Magic Johnson or Larry Bird? Every generation has its great player. There's never going to be one player that's so above and beyond anyone else.

Derrick Rose

I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.

Derrick Rose

Why can't I be MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league?