Top Player Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Player quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Shane Warne
Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.
- Shane Warne
Collection: Player
Image of Bob Uecker
You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year...unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.
- Bob Uecker
Collection: Player
Image of Jerry West
There are many players who don't measure up to their marketability.
- Jerry West
Collection: Player
Image of Meg Rosoff
Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.
- Meg Rosoff
Collection: Player
Image of Joe Theismann
Great players make great plays.
- Joe Theismann
Collection: Player
Image of Andy Murray
I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.
- Andy Murray
Collection: Player
Image of Marat Safin
Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.
- Marat Safin
Collection: Player
Image of Marat Safin
Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger Federer) is the most complete player in the world so far.
- Marat Safin
Collection: Player
Image of Ian Rush
The young players in the Welsh squad aren't young any more
- Ian Rush
Collection: Player
Image of Ian Rush
When Jason Koumas is on form, he's the type of player who calls all the strings
- Ian Rush
Collection: Player
Image of Gerry Mulligan
Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.
- Gerry Mulligan
Collection: Player
Image of Gerry Mulligan
A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!
- Gerry Mulligan
Collection: Player
Image of Suresh Raina
Normally players from the hostels don't give much importance to their fitness, but my case was different thanks to my coach. He helped me focus a lot on my batting and bowling which worked out really well for me in the future.
- Suresh Raina
Collection: Player
Image of Steve Vai
It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.
- Steve Vai
Collection: Player
Image of John Simon
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.
- John Simon
Collection: Player
Image of Suzi Quatro
I feel that whatever you put out is what you'll get back. I always put out, 'hey, hi, I'm a bass player, no bullshit,' and that's what I got back. I got the respect.
- Suzi Quatro
Collection: Player
Image of Alonzo Mourning
Kobe Bryant is the most talented player in the game today; he could do anything.
- Alonzo Mourning
Collection: Player
Image of Pat Metheny
The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.
- Pat Metheny
Collection: Player
Image of Pat Metheny
Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.
- Pat Metheny
Collection: Player
Image of Jim Bouton
For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.
- Jim Bouton
Collection: Player
Image of Freddy Adu
It's not easy when you come in as the highest-paid player and you're 14.
- Freddy Adu
Collection: Player
Image of Steve Spurrier
I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.
- Steve Spurrier
Collection: Player
Image of Dave Mustaine
David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard
- Dave Mustaine
Collection: Player
Image of Rob Schneider
People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'
- Rob Schneider
Collection: Player
Image of Mick Taylor
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.
- Mick Taylor
Collection: Player
Image of George Steinbrenner
David Cone is in a class by himself with three or four other players.
- George Steinbrenner
Collection: Player
Image of Michel Patini
Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.
- Michel Patini
Collection: Player
Image of Darin Strauss
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.
- Darin Strauss
Collection: Player
Image of Glen Cook
Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.
- Glen Cook
Collection: Player
Image of Ernest Cline
Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly virtual reality is adopted. He's going to shows the whole world the potential of VR, which is one of the reasons I think he's doing it. Once you have to compose for 360 degrees, and a movie is different every time you watch it depending on where you choose to look, it's like the dawn of a new era.
- Ernest Cline
Collection: Player
Image of Casey Stengel
I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
- Casey Stengel
Collection: Player
Image of Arsene Wenger
You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.
- Arsene Wenger
Collection: Player
Image of Teddy Wilson
[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.
- Teddy Wilson
Collection: Player
Image of Ian Botham
You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.
- Ian Botham
Collection: Player
Image of Nuno Bettencourt
If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.
- Nuno Bettencourt
Collection: Player
Image of Paul Pierce
I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.
- Paul Pierce
Collection: Player
Image of Tiffeny Milbrett
I couldnt change who I am; I couldnt change the kind of player I am.
- Tiffeny Milbrett
Collection: Player
Image of Little Richard
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
- Little Richard
Collection: Player
Image of 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.
- Gary Player
Collection: Player
Image of Jose Mourinho
I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.
- Jose Mourinho
Collection: Player
Image of Jose Mourinho
The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.
- Jose Mourinho
Collection: Player
Image of Ichiro Suzuki
I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.
- Ichiro Suzuki
Collection: Player
Image of Slash
It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.
- Slash
Collection: Player
Image of Will Wright
No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.
- Will Wright
Collection: Player
Image of Will Wright
The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.
- Will Wright
Collection: Player
Image of Bjorn Borg
He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.
- Bjorn Borg
Collection: Player
Image of Wayne Rooney
For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things that other players didn't see; it was a pleasure to play with him and United were lucky to have him for so long.
- Wayne Rooney
Collection: Player
Image of William Shakespeare
All the world is a stage and we are merely players.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Player