Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandy Koufax

I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

Sanath Jayasuriya

No player can represent Sri Lanka in future without good fitness levels

William Hogarth

I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my stage, and men and women my players exhibited in a 'dumb' show.

Will Wright

The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.

Will Wright

No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players,

Will Wright

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

Warren Buffett

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

Vladimir Kramnik

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

Vladimir Kramnik

Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though Vishy Anand has belonged to the absolute top players in the world for fifteen years. This difference cannot be explained purely in chess terms, there must have been some psychology.

Vladimir Kramnik

In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

Vladimir Kramnik

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

Vladimir Kramnik

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Vladimir Kramnik

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Walter Becker

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

Walter Becker

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

Wayne Rooney

For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things that other players didn't see; it was a pleasure to play with him and United were lucky to have him for so long.

Wayne Rooney

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.

Wayne Rooney

I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

Wayne Rooney

Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

Wayne Rooney

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

William Golding

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Wayne Brady

I want the single player experience.

William Irwin Thompson

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

Wilhelm Steinitz

No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

Walter Hagen

The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.

Walter Dean Myers

What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

Yogi Berra

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

Willie McCovey

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

Willie Green

Thanks to all the fans from Detroit and Philly who are recognizing what type of player I am, and I hope they keep supporting the Sixers.

Woody Hayes

The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

William Gaddis

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Will Carling

People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.