And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
A Redskin is a football player.
It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents.
The fact I am the most expensive player is not a burden.
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.
When you hit a player in the head, you're more apt to get some fisticuffs or, you know, bring both teams out on the field, but it was more accepted that - in the '50s, '60s and '70s. I think nowadays it's a little over-policed because I will always believe that knocking a hitter down, even hitting a hitter at, sometimes, is part of baseball.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.
Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn't come back and now he's winning.
I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.
Oh, my God, I don't think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.
My favourite English player of my time was Paul Gascoigne. I interviewed him several times, always entertaining.
I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
My goal is not to create a better baseball player but to create a superhuman that just happens to play baseball.
I was in a very multi-racial, multi-cultural schooling system. I had a really delightful childhood. I was a jock. I became a very competitive swimmer in Zimbabwe. I was a swimmer, a tennis player, a hockey player. Then, when I was 13, I joined a Children's Performing Arts workshop in Zimbabwe.
I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.
I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
I couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.
You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.
If a player fails to perform in four or five consecutive matches, he should be dropped irrespective of whether he is a senior or a junior player.
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.
OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.
When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.
I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.
I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
