Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. D. Salinger

If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

Bobby Johnson

It was a wholesale change, ... There's no simple answer. It's everything, recruiting, player development. The process is ongoing.

Florentino Perez

It will be an important year and the players are prepared for the challenge.

It is really a players' network, ... It is player friendly.

It was a complicated situation for us as we had many players injured. But it was a useful match.

It was pretty frustrating, and I'm sure it is for the players when it's not going their way. They are working hard, but just not having success. I feel for them.

Lleyton Hewitt

It's tough for players to know what to take. It's worrying a lot of us.

I wanted to prove I could play with the players at Alabama.

It was a disappointing start but we got the three players we wanted and we set out to get,

Tommy Tuberville

It won't have anything to do with conferences. It'll have to do with the players on the field. How they play.

Andy Roddick

The various pull-outs prove that the players are tired at the end of a very long season,

Gilbert Arenas

They are not going to need me to score. They are going to need me to push the ball, use my speed and get after it. They have so many players who can score.

They'll be dialing it up at a time of the spring when many players are just doing whatever they do to get ready for the season.

Avery Johnson

They have two really terrific players in Shaq and Wade.

They've made him a combo guard. They need him to score more. He's been a special player in this league.

They've got guards, role players and stars. They've got what you need.

It's another important day. You work all week to get ready, and we're just waiting to see how the players will perform.

It's going to be complicated, but it's at times like these when you find out if the players have character.

It's frustrating because we feel like we got so much talent on the team. We're not putting it all to use, not playing up to our ability. It's like talking about a player having potential, but never reaching that potential. It's just sad if we don't reach our potential.

It's been over a week since we had our scrimmage and I know my players are ready to go,

Avery Johnson

It's the way we play. More than assists, we want to make sure our players move. We're really a different team.

It's like getting a quality player at the trade deadline.

Manu Ginobili

I learned how to play against players better than me.

Lou Gerstner

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

John Fogerty

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

Katee Sackhoff

That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people, as well. We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player, constantly, to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by the idea of solitude. I'm excited about that.

Justin Verlander

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

Ozzie Smith

I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

Ozzie Newsome

I have to constantly tell my personnel staff, 'Hey guys, we're still a good staff even though we're allowing good players to go play for other people,'

Paul McCartney

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Paul McCartney

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

Patty Berg

The difference between ordinary players and champions is the way they think.

Paul Tagliabue

The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very excessive and unrealistic demand.