Best 3949 quotes in «player quotes» category

Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

Me and my bandmate having known each other and worked together for so long, the process between us is kind of effortless. We've both played in other bands and recorded things outside of Foxygen, but there's something about what happens between our personalities when we make music that works. Also, with it being just the two of us, we don't have the problems that other bands do. We don't have a bass player saying, "What about my parts?" We play all the instruments between us, and we don't really have much ego about that stuff.

Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say. I'm not like this perfect, buttoned-up, suit-and-tie guy.

Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.

Me and a mate picked up two darling birds and they took us back to their flat. I went into the bedroom with my bird and she started getting undressed. I was that drunk I was standing there wondering how to get undressed without letting go of the award. I went to sit on the bed, missed it by four feet and ended up lying on the floor. I remember the bird looking down at me, and saying, ‘Some player of the year.’ Then I fell asleep. I woke up still clutching my award and staggered out of the flat. I hadn’t a bloody clue where I was.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

Messi could be the best player in the world - if he was human.

Messi is the number one. No other player is close to him.

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

Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.

Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had to play another in his place.

Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.

Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates

Messi doesn't have to do it in the Premier League to prove himself. The Champions League is the ultimate club competition. If he was in the Premier League, he'd be the best player by some distance.

Messi is the best player in the history of football, and that’s why I prefer Barça over Real Madrid.

Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play.

Messi the best player in the world by far. I don't think we'll ever see a player like him again.

Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years.

Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play.

Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.

Messi or Ronaldo? I prefer Messi because he is more of a street player.

Mfon Udoh is a good player and I've had him before I know the quality he has. And I believe this is a lesson that everything is all about time, that everybody's time will come and if you're doing well your time will surely come.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player

Me walk away? What? Never. I always believe that I am the best manager in the world. Why should I have to walk out? I have been working 24 hours a day. The players have to adapt to me, to one person. I cannot be a fake Di Canio.

Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the NBA to another level.

Michel Platini has no bottle. He is not a great player.

Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that sounded good when played it ... and he cared nothing about the collectibility of an instrument ... his philosophy was "A good player can make any guitar sound good" ... to Michael, a guitar was just a tool.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.

Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.

Milan is my favorite team. Every weekend I check the Serie A results to see how Milan fared. Milan has really great players, like Seedorf, Ibra, Pato and Thiago Silva. Then there is Nesta who is a great champion, it's enough just to look at his career.

Milt was one of the men who discovered Bobby Orr. He once said that if a player comes along who is better then Bobby Orr, may the Good Lord let me be alive to see him because he is going to be one hell of a player to watch. Enough said.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

More often than not, you find players seeing something that they can help another player with or reinforce something the coaches are seeing. Veterans do that regularly with younger players.

Most important thing, I am not a player who win the serves because I serve aces or free points, no. When I winning a lot of serves is because I am playing well from the baseline. That's why.

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.