Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Best

He's not fit to lace my boots as a player. (on Kevin Keegan)

George Best

I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.

George Best

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. A great entertainer needs to have charisma.

George Bernard Shaw

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Gary Moore

If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.

Gary Lineker

...an excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side.

Gary Neville

Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game.

Gary Neville

Paul Scholes. The best! Great player, person, friend!

Gary Neville

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

Gale Sayers

We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.

Fred Couples

I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

Fred Couples

I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

Fred Couples

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

Eric Bristow

I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.

Eric Clapton

When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.

Gary Player

The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

Gabe Newell

If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.

Franz Schubert

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

Frank Robinson

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

Frank Robinson

I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.

Frank Rijkaard

I can't fault my players. We created a lot of chances but we missed out on a victory because of the woodwork and goalkeeper Bonano, who did very well.

Chrisette Michele

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

Fabrice Muamba

Not just me but every professional footballer will tell you they miss playing the game, I miss the game especially as I retired early, not because I was a bad player but I retired solely for health reasons.

Fabio Capello

When I was a player, I'd have a pre-match meal of the biggest lump of fillet steak you could find, followed by rice pudding. Other times I'd have a steak and kidney pie. I'd finish the meal at 12.30 and be playing two-and-a-half hours later.

Fabio Capello

If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius.

Fabio Capello

In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.

George W. Bush

I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player.

George Thorogood

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.

George Steinbrenner

David Cone is in a class by himself with three or four other players

George Steiner

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

George Soros

These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government sponsored entities. They really kicked off this crisis. The state should set the rules and enforce them but not become involved as a market player.

Felicity Kendal

It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

Fanny Burney

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.