Top 1200 Hockey Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player.

I'm not a mean player. You'll notice I never pick on a player who has a number above 30.

I saw James Rodriguez play for the Colombian national team. I saw him play for Real Madrid and for Bayern, too. For me he's a fantastic player, a sensational player, intelligent, a player, who, if you let him play the way he likes, for sure, he'll do a lot for the Premier League.

Al Horford is a very good player; a great team player.

I'd no longer be the same player without my rigorousness, and certainly not the player Arsenal wanted.

I have felt part of this club when I have travelled all around the world and been recognised as a Manchester United player. And when you're a Manchester United player you will forever be a Manchester United player.

Player for player, there’s ?no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

So, really, I just try to be the best guitar player I can be - not the best female guitar player, not the best 'X amount of years' guitar player, or whatever - just the best guitar player.

I think a player like Van Persie can play for every team because he's a top player.

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

People told me I was more of a soccer player, not a football player.

What's the difference between a good player and a great player? A good player plays well in his own conditions - a great player plays well in all conditions.

The bigger you become as a player and the more success you have as a player, the spotlight definitely becomes brighter.

I rather win one championship as a key player than four championships as a part-time player.

Harry Kane is, of course, a very important player for England because he's the best player in the world.

Morata is a player that I appreciate a lot, he has been a top player for many years.

With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

Mario Gotze is a great player, but one of my favourites is Marco Reus, who is a fantastic player, and one of the very best.

When a big player leaves, a big player leaves. You're at a big club like Liverpool, another big player will come in the future.

I'm a versatile player, I'm a technical player, and I play with my head, but I can progress further.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

One of the best things if you are a football player is to see the faces of the kids, when they see you and are dreaming of being like you one day. That's a big responsibility, to be a good image for those kids. A football player is more than just a football player.

A player checking Twitter at halftime? I've seen it. A player tweeting out a grievance with an organization about playing time or how he is being utilized? I see it far too often. But the most concerning? Watching a really talented player corrupt his mind and confidence by reading all the critiques from anonymous football experts around the world.

A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.

I was the No. 1 player coming into college and I want to be the No. 1 player heading into the NFL. That's definitely one of my goals.

Yaya is a great player, a top player that plays in every part of the role.

I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

I don't want to be the guy that gets inspired by one player. I like to watch every player.

I don't want to get into who's the No. 1 player. The player who is the most electrifying to me is Cole Anthony.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

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

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

Every big player who leaves Arsenal is a massive loss. But no player here is bigger than the club.

I think it is rare that one player really hates another player on a team.

If one player does not trust the other players, that player should not play.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

You can be the best player in one game and then the worst player ever in the next.

A player senses when a coach loses confidence in him. That, more than anything, can throw a player.

At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

I'm a softball player. I'm a soccer player. I played tennis every day. I love being outside.

The best thing about streaming is there are no load times during play. Once the game has loaded the player never has to wait for new maps to load. This enables the player to get more immersed in the game world as there are no loading screens to remind the player they are actually playing a video game.

I'm from Denver, and basketball there isn't near what it is out in Chicago or Detroit or L.A. There weren't that many great players to come out of the area; I was the best player in high school. I was Player of the Year four straight years for the state. As a freshman, I was State Player of the Year; I was Mr. Everything, so I was a phenom.

America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.

I am a physical player, no doubt about that, but a dirty player? That's not my reputation.

I want people to say that an African basketball player is the best player in the whole world.

Every good, successful player, especially an attacking player, has a well-developed sense of space and time.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I wanted to go somewhere I could be an important player. Be the player the whole city looks up to.

I'm trying to lead by example. But I'm definitely challenging myself to be a better player, the player I want to be.

Guardiola has never been a great player; he was just a good player.

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.

Inch for inch, the 6-foot-3 Westbrook is the NBA's most sensationally talented player, a relentlessly explosive basket-attacker with a deadly pull-up jumper - a top-10 NBA player by any big-picture statistical measure from Player Efficiency Rating to Win Shares.

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.