Player Quotes:

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

source: A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.

topic: Baseball, Sorry, Player, Banishment

Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

- A. J. P. Taylor

topic: Player, History, Principles

Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.

- A. W. Tillinghast

topic: Golf, Maturity, Player

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

- Aaron Levie

topic: Player, Cheerleader, Entrepreneurship

I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team

- Abbi Glines

topic: Team, Player, Numbers

You always catch the wrong players.

- Abe Lemons

topic: Sports, Player, Psychology

My music lives because of real players.

- Abel Korzeniowski

source: "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.

topic: Real, Player, Music Life

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

- Abigail Washburn

source: "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

topic: Player, Chinese, Singing, Banjo Players

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

- Adam Arkin

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Team, Player, Firefighter, Josh

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.

- Adam Gopnik

topic: Player, Drawing, Risk

I'm not a good guitar player.

- Adam Jones

topic: Player, Guitar, Gamer, Guitar Player

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

- Adam Jones

topic: Player, Guitar, Band, Guitar Player, Bass Players

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

- Adam Oates

topic: Communication, Hypocrite, Player, Hypocrit

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

- Adam Oates

topic: Player, Littles, Assistants, Assistant Coaches, Head Coaches

I want to help Manchester United win the Premier League and become the best player in the world.

- Adnan

source: "Adnan Januzaj ready to commit his future to Manchester United". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2013.

topic: Winning, Player, League, Premier League, Manchester

I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

- Adolf Anderssen

topic: Mistake, Moving, Player

Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.

- Adrian Chiles

topic: Football, Running, Player

Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. God Bless everyone and thank u so much,

- Adrian Peterson

source: FaceBook post by Adrian Peterson from Oct 11, 2013

topic: Brother, Team, Player, Text Message, Thank U

I want to be the best player to ever play this game.

- Adrian Peterson

topic: Player, Games, Nfl, Best Players

I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

- Aimee Mullins

topic: Girl, Softball, Player, Softball Player

We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here.

- Al Davis

topic: Passion, Winning, Player, Oakland Raiders, Raiders

Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

- Al Di Meola

topic: Book, Player, Feet, Guitar Player

A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players who are trying to improve their right hand dexterity get hung up by playing too many notes with the left hand.I hear a lot of players running whole scales from the sixth string to the first , and playing them really sloppy.Keeping it very basic-and using only a few notes-and playing slowly with perfect rhythm is a task in itself.

- Al Di Meola

topic: Running, Player, Hands, Sloppy, Dexterity

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after

- Al Hirt

topic: Player, Long, Stylist

Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.

- Al Kaline

topic: Running, Athlete, Player, Shortstops

All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.

- Al Kaline

topic: Player, League, Different

I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

- Al Kaline

topic: Team, Player, Night, Ballparks

Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

- Al Lopez

topic: Team, Player, Goal, Individual Goals

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

- Al Lopez

topic: Wall, Player, Four, Hotel Rooms, Four Walls

You measure a player from the head up.

- Al McGuire

topic: Motivational, Sports, Player

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

- Al McGuire

topic: Basketball, Player

If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.

- Al McGuire

topic: Basketball, Jobs, Player

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

- Al McGuire

topic: Basketball, Player, Students

I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.

- Alain Vigneault

topic: Player, Lakes, Nhl, Great Guy, Joey

Some players need a boot up their backside. Other players need the arm

- Alan Brazil

topic: Player, Needs, Boots, Backsides

Some of the Scotland players need to look themselves in the face.

- Alan Brazil

topic: Player, Scotland, Needs

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

- Alan Brazil

topic: Football, Player, Offence

The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end, such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

- Alan Curbishley

source: "Alan Curbishley resigns as West Ham manager" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2008.

topic: Soccer, Player, Decision, Involving, Breach Of Trust

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

- Alan Lewis

topic: Thinking, Player, Trying, Body Language

I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.

- Alan Lewis

topic: Team, Hard Work, Player, Scrum

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

- Alan Pardew

topic: Player, Sight, League

They (Liverpool players) are passing the cup down the line like a new born baby. Although when they are back in the dressing room they will probably fill it with champagne, something you should never do to a baby.

- Alan Parry

topic: Baby, Player, Lines

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

- Alan Rusbridger

topic: Opportunity, Player, Order, Digital Revolution

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

- Alan Shearer

topic: Player, Admire, Paul Scholes, Scholes

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

- Alan Shearer

source: Source: monstersupplements.com

topic: Player, World, Tag

One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.

- Alan Shearer

topic: Player, Teammate, Biggest Fear

IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous.

- Alastair Cook

topic: Player, Doe, Dangerous, Allowing

I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

- Albert Brooks

topic: Player, Chinatown, Periods

A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen.

- Albert Pujols

topic: Opportunity, Player, People

I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.

- Alessandro Del Piero

topic: Football, Player, Firsts, Maradona, Giggs

Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

- Alessandro Del Piero

topic: Player, Thinking, Games, Newcomers, Good Quality

Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs.

- Alessandro Del Piero

topic: Football, Player, Two, Watching Football, Maradona

We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.

- Alex Agase

topic: Time, Player, Too Much, Not Enough Time

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

- Alex Chilton

topic: Country, Player, Years

I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient. The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's worth a gamble'. You are going to lose the game anyway. There is nothing better than when you get to that last fifteen minutes and you actually win the game late on. The fans are going out of the gates I gave it a try and it worked.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Winning, Player, Games, Kitchen Sinks, Half Time

I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there. Absolutely astounding.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Boys, Player, Goal, Cristiano Ronaldo

I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: School, Player, Average

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Soccer, Moving, Player

I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Inspirational, Player, Used

I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.

- Alex Ferguson

source: Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

topic: Powerful, Player, Directors, Manchester

Players know that they can trust me which is really important. They know that I had the ability to adapt to change, and they have seen that many times over the years. I think these are important parts of being in control of footballers.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Player, Thinking, Years, Ability To Adapt

The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Player, Thinking, Balls

David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Inspirational, Football, Player, Strikers, God Given Talents

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Teamwork, Player, Embrace

It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. I felt such an honor to be associated with such a player.

- Alex Ferguson

source: "A-League talking points: Melbourne City fail another test of character" by Jonathan Howcroft, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Football, Player, Exhaustion

You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Football, Winning, Player

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Football, Real, Player, English Football, Rare Things

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes you just know.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Player, Doubt, Sometimes

Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Player, Thinking, Servant, Marvellous

It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Football, Player, Thinking

Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career in the game.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Heart, Player, Games, Great Hearts

Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Player, Thinking, Squad

I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Inspirational, Player, Talking

As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Football, Player, These Days

He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Inspirational, Book, Player

If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Inspirational, Player, Asking, Cantona

To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Inspirational, Player, Wenger

Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took up a lot of space musically in the songs was really important to the way Rush developed. Geddy and Neil both were such active players and lot of the time we were all playing like crazy and it was too much and somebody had to reel it in and me being the faceless guy, I would do that,

- Alex Lifeson

topic: Song, Crazy, Player, Faceless

It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.

- Alex Rodriguez

topic: Baseball, Player, Reality

The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

- Alexander Alekhine

topic: Player, Law, Drunk, Law Breakers

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

- Alexander Alekhine

topic: Player, Chess, Logical, Complication

Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.

- Alexander Alekhine

topic: Player, Risk, Innovation

Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.

- Alexander Alekhine

topic: Player, Thinking, Odds, Capablanca, Blitz

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

- Alexander Gordon Smith

topic: Hockey, Player, Puck

I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the total. I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of the older generation, from whose games we learned, the aesthetic side was the most important. -

- Alexander Kotov

topic: Thinking, Player, Numbers, Older Generation

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

- Alexander Kotov

topic: Success, Moving, Player

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.

- Alexander Kotov

source: Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.51, Courier Corporation

topic: Learning, Player, Opposites

Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor. It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!

- Alexander Kotov

topic: Player, Two, Boards, Skittles

In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.

- Alexander Kotov

topic: Player, Order, Class, Large Numbers

In choosing an opening plan players think most of all of harmonious development for the pieces, but sometimes leave the development of the queen out of their considerations. Yet the Queen is the most valuable and important piece and the whole outcome can depend upon how successfully she plays her role.

- Alexander Kotov

topic: Queens, Player, Thinking, Harmonious

Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

- Alexander Kotov

topic: Learning, Player, Mind

I wear tinted visor not to trick other players, but so hot girls in stands don't see me looking at them

- Alexander Ovechkin

topic: Girl, Player, Hot, Hot Girl

Fighting is necessary in hockey. But if you fight, you have to choose your partner carefully. If you're an experienced player and you want to fight, you can't choose a player who has never fought in his life.

- Alexander Ovechkin

topic: Hockey, Fighting, Player

My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.

- Alexander Ovechkin

source: "More than just the next superstar - Ovechkin's zest for life contagious with Capitals". The Record (Kitchner, Ontario, Canada), October 27, 2006.

topic: Dream, Team, Player

I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and a joy for the game.

- Alexander Ovechkin

topic: Kids, Player, Zest, Zest For Life

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

- Alexis Korner

topic: Player, Men, Jazz

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

- Alfred Binet

topic: Passion, Player, Ideas, Chess Players

No one player is as good as the sum of a team

- Alfredo Di Stefano

topic: Team, Player

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

- Alice Cooper

source: Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2003.

topic: Mistake, Golf, Player, Inspirational Golf

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

- Alison Gopnik

topic: Inspiring, Player, Years, Simulate

So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."

- Alistair Cooke

topic: Morning, Golf, Player, Electric Car, Britons

There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

- Allan Border

topic: Player, One Day, Generations

When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.

- Allen Iverson

topic: Basketball, Player, Laughing

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

- Allen Iverson

topic: Basketball, Player, Should, Downsizing

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

- Allen Iverson

topic: Player, Mvp, Careers

Kobe Bryant is the most talented player in the game today; he could do anything.

- Alonzo Mourning

topic: Player, Games, Today

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

- Alonzo Mourning

topic: Basketball, Player, Games

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

- Alvin Dark

topic: Baseball, Sunshine, Player, Baseball Games, Really Living

I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.

- Amber Heard

topic: Home, Player, Records, Old Records, Record Players

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press

topic: Player, Men, Gambling, Ingenious

I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.

- Amelie Mauresmo

topic: Senior, Player, Thinking, New Faces

I have been amongst the best players in the world for 8 years. None at that level played as many ties as I did.

- Amelie Mauresmo

topic: Sports, Player, Years, Best Players

I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.

- Amy Adams

topic: Player, Iphone, Dvds, Long Road, Road Trip

A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.

- Anatol Rapoport

source: "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 108), December 1962.

topic: Military, Player, Games, Thorough Understanding

The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.

- Anatol Rapoport

source: "Game Theory as a Theory of Conflict Resolution" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 4), 1974.

topic: Player, Games, May

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

- Anatol Rapoport

source: "Strategy and Conscience" by Anatol Rapoport, Harper & Row, (p. 195), 1964.

topic: Player, Soul, Champion

Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move.

- Anatol Rapoport

source: The two commands for his computer program,Tit forTat, designed at the University ofToronto. It outperformed all other programs at an international computer tournament in1979, and it continues to excel in tournaments.The programinitiates reciprocal cooperation yet responds in kind to provocation.

topic: Moving, Player

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

- Anatoly Karpov

topic: Moving, Mean, Player

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

- Anatoly Karpov

topic: Player, Champion, World, World Champions

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

- Anatoly Karpov

topic: Dog, Player, Chess, Playing Chess, Blitz

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

- Anatoly Karpov

topic: Strong, Player, Champion

No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

- Andre Agassi

topic: Sports, Athlete, Player, Tennis Player

Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.

- Andre Agassi

topic: Sports, Thinking, Player

So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a great era of basketball. I watched so much of that. That just helped me be a student of the game and pick up any moment. It's the 10,000 hour rule. You're just trying to master your craft.

- Andre Iguodala

source: "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, scores.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

topic: Basketball, Player, Nba Championships

To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Football, Eye, Player

Small players learn to be intuitive, to anticipate, to protect the ball. A guy who weighs 90 kilos doesn't move like one who weighs 60. In the playground I always played against much bigger kids and I always wanted the ball. Without it, I feel lost.

- Andres Iniesta

source: "Iniesta graduates from cameo role to take centre stage at Barcelona" by Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2009.

topic: Moving, Kids, Player, Intuitive

If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

- Andres Iniesta

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fighting, Winning, Player

Every player wants to be as complete as possible and goals for a central midfielder are very important.

- Andres Iniesta

topic: Player, Goal, Important, Midfielders

The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard.

- Andres Iniesta

topic: Player, Special, Clubs

I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.

- Andres Iniesta

source: "Q&A with Spain's Andres Iniesta". Interview with Richard Deitsch, www.si.com. June 02, 2011.

topic: Soccer, Team, Player

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

- Andrew Bogut

source: "Bogut downplays injury concerns, relishes fresh start with Warriors". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. March 28, 2012.

topic: Team, Smart, Player

I think Chris Paul is a great player. He is very unselfish and plays very hard, so he would be a guy if he plays. I think his hand is still questionable, though. I hear they are talking about resting him that weekend. I'm excited to play with all the guys. Marvin Williams is starting to play well, and Salim Stoudamire, I think he should be there.

- Andrew Bogut

source: Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 8, 2006.

topic: Sports, Player, Thinking

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

- Andrew Cuomo

topic: Player, People, Different

It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.

- Andrew Hill

topic: Player, Differences, Energy

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

- Andrew Soltis

source: "Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess". Book by Harry Golombek, 1977.

topic: Player, Genius, Chess

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

- Andrew Wyeth

topic: Player, Mirrors, Lines

Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field

- Andriy Shevchenko

source: "Electric Sheva" by Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

topic: Football, Italian, Player, Football Field

Darren Fletcher is the type of player who would walk over hot coals to play for his country, and he has done

- Andy Gray

topic: Country, Player, Hot, Darren

My school was 17 years as a player and another 16 watching more games probably than any coach has - all over the world, all systems. I couldn't go to school and write it down for people who are far less experienced, telling me what to do and how to do it.

- Andy Gray

source: "There's too much football on TV, says Andy Gray!" by Alan Fraser, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

topic: Writing, School, Player

I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly.

- Andy Gray

topic: Soccer, Player

If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.

- Andy Gray

topic: Football, Team, Player, Wenger

My focus was always first and foremost to stop the puck. I never let the other players on the other team get to me.

- Andy Moog

topic: Team, Hockey, Player

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

- Andy Murray

topic: Hard Work, Player, Tennis, Tennis Player

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

- Andy Murray

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Player, Beats

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

- Andy Murray

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Eye, Player, Doping

If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.

- Andy Murray

topic: Moving, Player, Needs, Volley

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

- Andy Murray

source: "Andy Murray finally breaks through". Interview with Shaun Assael, www.espn.co.uk. December 3, 2012.

topic: Player, Thinking, Careers

I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.

- Andy Pick

topic: Player, Two Sides, Baggage

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

- Andy Roddick

topic: Stupid, Player, Mph, Last Year

It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

- Andy Roddick

topic: Player, Able, Lists

Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.

- Andy Roddick

topic: Sorry, Player, Tennis, Motivational Tennis

Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don't feel I've done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling.

- Andy Roddick

topic: Home, Player, Thinking, Uneasy, Uneasy Feelings

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

- Andy Roddick

source: "Greatest competitor: Andy Roddick". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2009.

topic: Successful, Player

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.

- Andy Serkis

topic: Character, Player, One Direction

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

- Angela Ruggiero

topic: Hockey, Player

I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

- Angela Ruggiero

topic: Sports, Hockey, Player, Hockey Player, Playing Hockey

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

- Angela Ruggiero

topic: Hockey, Player, Thinking, Hockey Player

After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.

- Angie Martinez

topic: Nice, Player, Two

There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions.

- Anita Sarkeesian

topic: Player, Differences, Issues, Gender Issues

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

- Ann Wilson

source: FaceBook post by Ann Wilson from Nov 12, 2013

topic: Art, Player, Fire

Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.

- Anna Kournikova

topic: Mean, Player, Dating, Tennis Player

When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?

- Anna Kournikova

topic: Player, Tennis, Theatre, Tennis Player

The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.

- Anna Kournikova

topic: Player, People, Attractive, Attractiveness

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

- Anna Kournikova

topic: Girl, Player, Tennis, Tennis Player, Notice Me

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

- Anna Kournikova

topic: Player, Tennis, Personality, Good Personality

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

- Anne Bronte

topic: Player, Chess, Company

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Beautiful, Simple, Player, Tennis Player, White Teeth

You never have enough competition at any position, ... Several of the players listed at right wing have played center in the NHL, like Trevor Linden. Some can play both wings. I've been skating on a line with the Sedin twins. They are a lot more skilled than some people give them credit. Look at their point totals and they are right up there in their point-per-minute averages. My job will be to complement them and try to get our line to provide secondary scoring behind the big line of Naslund, Bertuzzi and Morrison. Those guys look good and I expect they'll be the top line in the NHL again.

- Anson Carter

topic: Jobs, Player, Wings

After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

- Anson Dorrance

topic: Volleyball, Player, Practice, Higher Level

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

- Anson Dorrance

topic: Sports, Player, Keys

The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player

- Anthony Greenwald

topic: Drama, Past, Player

When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.

- Anthony Heald

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Country, Couple, Player, Stranger In A Strange Land, Abnormality

The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.

- Anthony Holden

source: Anthony Holden (2016). “Big Deal: One Year as a Professional Poker Player”, p.85, Hachette UK

topic: Winning, Player, Winner

You'd better get onto MI6. They'll be in charge of security at the airport." "Of course." Sir Graham moved toward the door. He stopped and turned around. "And what happens if you're wrong?" he inquired. "What happens if these soccer players do somehow get killed?" Kellner shrugged. "At least we'll know what we're dealing with," he said. "And they lost every single one of their games while they were in Nigeria. I'm sure we can put together another team.

- Anthony Horowitz

topic: Soccer, Team, Player

I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered I was wrong. There is something familiar about my old vinyl. Call it nostalgia, but I don't care for the 'purity' of CDs. They have no personality! The crackle and pop of the stylus on a record player as you wait for the music to begin creates an anticipation that CDs simply can't provide.

- Anthony Pilla

topic: Music, Reading, Player, Record Players

I don't believe a player is ever a finished product.

- Anthony Rizzo

topic: Believe, Player

I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing Im concerned about is the NBAs image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then Im all for it.

- Antonio Davis

topic: Player, Thinking, Rapper, Business Minded

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

- Aristotle

topic: Men, Player, Self

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

- Aristotle

topic: Artist, Player, Men

If u come to Sri Lanka you will find that DHONI has more fans than any other Srilankan player.

- Arjuna Ranatunga

topic: Player, Sri Lanka, Dhoni

NBA gets to see these players develop more..Did Lebron need another year, Did Kobe need another year

- Arn Tellem

topic: Player, Years, Nba

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.

- Arne Duncan

topic: Athlete, Fighting, Player, Tough Life

There's some good news, too, and the good news is that the players [finally] have become more aware of the fact that we [in golf] need sponsors, and we need the good will that is created by the players being, let's say, cooperative with the sponsors - meaning friendly.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Golf, Player, Friendly

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Golf, Player, Emotional, Brain Power

Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Golf, Player, Needs

The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind.

- Arpad Elo

topic: Player, Wind, Water, Swaying, Cork

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

- Arrigo Sacchi

source: "Arrigo Sacchi: 'I'm not racist ... but there are too many blacks in youth teams'". www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2015.

topic: Pride, Player, Black

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

- Arsene Wenger

source: "How do world class coaches and the worlds best clubs view Youth player Development?". Interview with Alfred Galustian, challengefc.org. May 02, 2015.

topic: Soccer, Player, Expression, Freedom Of Expression, Be Encouraged

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

- Arsene Wenger

topic: Player, Influence, Coaches

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

- Arsene Wenger

topic: Player, Thinking, Practice

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

- Arsene Wenger

topic: Player, Messi, World, Leo Messi

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

- Arsene Wenger

topic: Player, House, Foundation

The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as possible. Male players must not only retain equanimity on their side of the net, but create dissension on the other.

- Art Hoppe

topic: Player, Tennis, Males, Dissension

I never give up on my players, and I'll never give up on people.

- Art Modell

topic: Giving Up, Player, People

It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Winning, Player, Tennis

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

- Arthur Baer

topic: Honesty, Heart, Player, Larceny

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

- Arthur Blank

topic: Jobs, Player, Agency, Coaching Staff, Financial Resources

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

- Arthur Dean

topic: Giving Up, Player, Numbers

When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Stress, Player, Curves, Provence, Still Life

I don't think players care too much about stats and statistics...

- Ashley Cole

topic: Player, Thinking, Care, Caring Too Much