Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

Marat Safin

Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and they make such a big deal out of it. If they treat us this way, well, we have to treat them the same. We want to be respected, the way we respect Wimbledon, even if it is not the best Grand Slam on earth.

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.

Jose Mourinho

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

Jose Mourinho

He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him

Jose Mourinho

The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out.

Jose Mourinho

If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.

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.

Jorge Valdano

Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I’ve never seen a player in such good physical condition. He’s a gladiator.

Jonny Greenwood

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

Jonny Lang

I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

Luis Garcia

At the end of day, a player needs the confidence of the manager, the support of the fans and to enjoy the game.

Luis Suarez

My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.

Luis Suarez

Steven Gerrard is the best player I've ever played with.

Luis Suarez

I never told you this but I always thought the club should have recognised you far more when you retired. For the career that you had, one of Liverpool's greatest players, you should have had a much bigger and better send-off in your final match. That's just what I felt.

Pavel Nedved

You could say he is like a twelfth player for us on the pitch.

Lee Ann Womack

There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.

Lee Ann Womack

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others

LeBron James

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

Lance Henriksen

I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

James Iha

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

Marc Andreessen

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

Sid Waddell

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

Sidney Crosby

I want to be the best player possible.

Sheryl Swoopes

Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.

Shigeru Miyamoto

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.

Sharon Gless

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

Shane Warne

I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I'd like them to be honest.

Shane Warne

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

Neil Peart

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

Tara VanDerveer

Several of our players at Stanford have used the J-Glove and J-Strap with excellent results. It is a very useful training tool for the player looking to improve both their shot and their percentage. I would recommend it to anyone looking for that extra edge.