Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martina Navratilova

All top players are the same strokewise, but mentally I can improve and that's where it's at for top players.

Martina Navratilova

I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.

Pinetop Perkins

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

Philip Rivers

I've already developed trust in my teammates -as a player and as a person.

Pete Carroll

I would say that we have to explore and find ways to make our game a better game and take care of our players in whatever way possible. Regardless of what other stigmas might be involved, we have to do this because the world of medicine is doing this.

Pete Carroll

I'm telling you what I'm telling you. I will go wherever I have to go, listen to whoever I have to listen to. Whether it's a player or it's a coach. Whether it's a corporate leader, a political leader or it's the guy sitting on the corner. It doesn't matter to me; I'm on, I'll go wherever.

Pete Carroll

Troy Polamalu was a fascinating player, and that made him.

Phil Simms

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.

Phil Taylor

It's unbelievable to have come through a field of 64 of the best players I've seen for a long time.

Phil Mickelson

I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media.

Peter Marshall

Get off, you look ugly (to a blood splattered player during a game)

Quincy Jones

I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!

Quentin Tarantino

I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.

Priest Holmes

I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.

Priest Holmes

I hope this serves as a light for others who come into the league as undrafted players.

Mike Hankwitz

We are professionals. We are going to finish that way. In reality, how we conduct ourselves in this period and how well our players play will be as good an interview as you can do - better than anything you could say.

Mike Figgis

You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

Mike Gordon

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

Jim Leyland

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if theres media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

Jim Leyland

I've managed 25 years, and I can probably count on one hand players that I didn't really care for, and that's probably thousands of players that I've managed. I think that's pretty good. I love the players and I always will.

Ely Culbertson

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Emanuel Ax

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

Ellen Hopkins

I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.

Joel Miller

Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.

Jimmy Hill

He [Beckham] has two feet, which a lot of players don't have nowadays.

Jimmy Rollins

The bottom line is just that Rickey Henderson was my favorite player. His flair, his style-the key word is impact-he's an impact player.

Jimmy Page

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

Jim Thome

Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.

Lou Lamoriello

I would like to accept this recognition on behalf of all the staff members that that I’ve been associated with; all of the office people behind the scenes who never get credit and make this game so great along with the great coaches and players.

John Cho

Sometimes just being an immigrant, I read things the wrong way, and that can be funny. Or I'll put the emphasis on the wrong word, and that can be funny. I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.

Lionel Messi

Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.

Lindsay Davenport

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

Leo Durocher

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.