Quotes with players

  • Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.
  • When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
  • I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
  • I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
  • The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
  • One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
  • Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
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  • John Wooden Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Brandi Chastain After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Bobby Hull All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bryan Robson All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • William Shakespeare All the world's a stage;
    And all the men and women merely players.
    As you like it (1599)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Casey Stengel All you have to do is keep the five players who hate your guts away from the five who are undecided.
    The Guardian Book of Sports Quotes, ed. John Samuel (1985)
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Buddy Rich And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Arsene Wenger As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Brenda Brathwaite As a note, I never once refer to 'Train' as a game in the rules, and I also never refer to the participants as players.
    Brenda Brathwaite
    American game designer
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  • Boz Scaggs As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Bjorn Borg As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Arsene Wenger At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Bryce Harper Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bob Hope Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Gore Vidal Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bobby Doerr Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time.
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  • Casey Stengel Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Bill Simmons First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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