Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Kuper

I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch.

Tony Iommi

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.

Tony Levin

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

Tony La Russa

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

Tony DiCicco

I don't blame the players, I don't blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.

Tony Dungy

I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.

Tony Dungy

There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.

Tommy Lasorda

I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.

Tommy Lasorda

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

Tom Waits

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Tom Seaver

Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the last fifteen years - the stolen base.

Steven Gerrard

The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool)

Steven Gerrard

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

Steve McClaren

He is such a great player that he has the capabilities to let no one affect his game. (on David Beckham)

Steve McClaren

We have to reduce our expectations of England and we have the players to do it

Steve Nash

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.

Steve Nash

I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.

Steve Ballmer

Ford shared this vision. We are inviting more players to join in.

Steve Ballmer

We'll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.

Stephen Keshi

It's always good to have your players with you, it makes you feel great. That is just it. The coach and the players understand one another but people outside don't understand. But it's good to see him, it's good to see all the players.

Stephen Keshi

Why would you want to bring a foreign coach? Why? If you bring a foreign coach, you might as well bring foreign players, white players to play for Nigeria. If you bring a European coach, he should also bring oyinbo (white) players. That's how it is.

Stanley Clarke

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

Shahid Afridi

I am still better than lots of players.

Sergio Ramos

CR7 is the best player in the world, we’re lucky to train with him every day and to have him with us

Sergio Aguero

Messi won 3 Ballons d'Or and is competing for another one. He will be the best player in the world until he retires.

Sergio Aguero

I always got on well with Roberto Mancini and never had a problem with him. Every manager has their own way of working, tactics, and style of play. As a player, you do what the manager says. There are misunderstandings, but generally, everything was fine under Mancini.

Scottie Pippen

Michael Jordan is probably the greatest scorer to ever play in the game. But I may go as far to say Lebron James may be the the greatest player to ever play the game.

Scottie Pippen

I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.

Scott Weiland

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

Tim Henman

I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.

Tim Henman

There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I played hundreds of players from Eastern Europe and Russia who had no facilities at all.

Robert Altman

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Rita Coolidge

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.