Top 1200 Soccer Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't, simply, many other places where you can sing your national anthem until you lose your voice without causing a riot. In the context of soccer, flag-waving nationalism - even chauvinistic, anti-foreigner, flag-waving nationalism - is acceptable in Britain.

If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin America, if you don't focus your education on that, if you don't find your 10,000 best scientists, but you do find your 10,000 best soccer players, the consequences are, you become a World Cup Champion in Soccer, like Brazil, but you don't become Korea, which earned 1/5 of what a Mexican did in 1975 and today earns five times more.

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

Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The player I was overseas, three-point shooting wasn't my first thing. I was a one-on-one, driving-to-the-basket type 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 last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all other forms of work, art, or play.But that's bullshit. Plumbers don't get plumber's block. Teachers don't get teacher's block. Soccer players don't get soccer block. What makes writing different? Nothing. The only difference is that writers feel they have a free pass to give up when writing is hard.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Women's World Cup gives FIFA a chance, once every four years, to showcase the growth of women's soccer. It gives FIFA a highly visible opportunity to encourage countries around the globe to also support their women's programs. It gives FIFA the forum to show countries the potential of women's soccer if only you support it.

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.

Soccer was probably the most fun game I've played because I never walked away feeling like I had a bad game. If you play a position in soccer where you can out-hustle or out-work or out-prepare somebody, it is a lot easier to walk away from the game and say, I gave it my all. I could always try. I could always hustle.

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

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

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

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.

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

He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.