Cricketing Player Quotes

#1. I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example! - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. One helpful way of identifying these kingdom features is to examine closely the "preview" passages in the Bible. Pop a movie into your DVD player, and you'll first see previews of coming attractions. Similarly, throughout the Bible are previews of the "feature film": the kingdom of God in all its consummated fullnness. These texts offer us glimpses into what live will be like in the new heavens and new earth. - Author: Amy L. Sherman

#3. When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it. - Author: Paul Weller

#4. We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years. - Author: Kerri Walsh

#5. I've worked on the physical side and I think I'm a player that can do most things. - Author: Jamie Redknapp

#6. I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players. - Author: Benji Marshall

#7. Such a positive move by Uruguay - bringing 2 players off and putting 2 players on. - Author: John Helm

#8. I have a whole regimental intelligence service that's developed a fine line in rumour-mongering and story-placing over the last few years, and the ear of every media player you've courted so assiduously over the decades; they will ask the questions we've suggested, they will listen, and they will repeat what we tell them. The issue is whether people believe it. - Author: Iain M. Banks

#9. I was a guitar player first off. - Author: Boz Scaggs

#10. You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player. - Author: Suzanne Farrell

#11. By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new. - Author: Garry Kasparov

#12. I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level. - Author: Dikembe Mutombo

#13. Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value. - Author: John C. Maxwell

#14. There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results. - Author: David Brooks

#15. There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything. - Author: Paul Scholes

#16. When I bought the [WNBA] team, I saw that no one really cared about them. Like the locker facilities that these young women have to work in-they weren't right. I want to give them the best locker room facilities and show them they're valued-because if you show them value, they're going to perform better. And this goes for all women, not just basketball players. - Author: Sheila Johnson

#17. I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it. - Author: Hugh Laurie

#18. But people don't know if I can teach the game. I know I can. My experience in Oklahoma was positive. It opened my eyes to how the game is played - the interaction among players, fans and media, how all that works. You have to know about the business of the game and how the actions of players and coaches affect the business. I think I have it down now. - Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#19. The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get. - Author: Gary Player

#20. The beauty of baseball is multidimensional, appealing to the eye and the mind. There is beauty, for instance, in its geometry, the space between the bases and the fielders; beauty in the arc of the season, which brings us out of doors to gather, until fall calls us back in; and beauty in its democracy, that each player hits in turn. But one of its greatest beauties is that, more than any other sport, it emboldens an expertise from those who watch it. Everybody can manage. That does not happen as easily in other sports. In - Author: Tom Verducci

#21. I've got a magnificent relationship with Leo (Messi) and Ney (Neymar). They drive the team, with Andres Iniesta as well - what a player. You know if you have a good relationship with them off the pitch it will be that way on the pitch too. They took it as a sign that I had come to help them, not to compete with them. - Author: Luis Suarez

#22. I've always preferred Marvel over DC. I just relate to their characters better. I mean look at Wolverine, at first he was just a bit player in an ensemble cast. Now he's the only reason people read X-Men. Just like me and Scrubs. - Author: Zach Braff

#23. Bridget did not budge, and her face was without expression. She sat, quietly defeated like a chess player who lost a career match in less than four moves. - Author: Emmie White

#24. I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf. - Author: Hollis Stacy

#25. Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are. - Author: Frank Lampard

#26. Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport. - Author: Allan Houston

#27. The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player. - Author: Brian Griese

#28. Joe: We can't just walk out on her without saying goodbye. Jerry: What? Since when? You usually walk out and leave 'em with nothing but a kick in the teeth. Joe: That's when I was a saxophone player. Now I'm a millionaire. - Author: Tony Curtis

#29. I think spectators and fans are very important. Darts players would be nowhere without them. - Author: Trina Gulliver

#30. For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range. - Author: Ernie Els

#31. I was tagged early as the prototypical white player, the guy with the intangibles - the smart player, the guy who did all the right things. - Author: Kevin Love

#32. My sense, although I don't remember discussing it with anyone, was that with the fall of France to the Nazis in June 1940, European civilization had collapsed. I also recalled that although both George Herbert Mead and John Dewey had been born in New England, they developed their distinctively American philosophy of pragmatism in Chicago. So thinking of my own New England roots, I decided to go to Chicago, which, seen through Carl Sandburg's eyes, was the opposite of European decadence: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler, Stormy, husky, brawling. City of the Big Shoulders.7 - Author: Grace Lee Boggs

#33. I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don't like bands that look like roadies. I don't like when I can't tell who's the guitar tech and who's the guitar player. - Author: Alison Mosshart

#34. Big Papi placed among the top five in Most Valuable Player balloting during his first five seasons with the Red Sox. His best finish in that span was second place in 2005, just losing out to Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees. It was A-Rod, however, who suggested he'd gladly trade his hardware for the ring Ortiz won in 2004. A-Rod got the hardware for MVP again in 2007, but it was Ortiz who got another ring. - Author: Tucker Elliot

#35. On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what I'm going to do after the show. They can't get it into their heads: "How can he be talking to Madeleine Albright one minute and then somebody half his age ... " They're just jealous. But I never made any bones about it. I am a player. Always have been. - Author: Bill Maher

#36. To all the staff members that take care of us every single day, From Donnie Strack, to Joe Sharpe, Tony Katz, Dave Bliss, Josh Longstaff, Will, Wilson, St, Mark, Dwight, I could down the line, All you guys have made me a better player. I wish I had a Sharpie, So I could write all your names on here 'Cause you had a hand on this. You made me believe in myself. You made me a better person, A better player. Your words of encouragement, Your love, Your positivity, Got me through. And I thank you guys. - Author: Kevin Durant

#37. So at my old school," he said. "There was this kid on the baseball team. People thought, I don't know. They saw that he went to some website or something." ... "They made it impossible for him to play. Every day, the found another way to mess with him. Then one Friday after school, they locked him in the storage closet." He winced, as if remembering and I knew. I knew then. "All night long and the whole next day. A tiny, dark, disgusting airless space. His parents thought he was at the away game and someone told the coaches he was sick, so no one even looked for him. No one knew he was trapped in there." His chest was heaving and I was remembering how he told me he didn't used to have claustrophobia and now he did. "He was really good too, probably the best player on the team or could have been. And he didn't even do anything. The guy just went to these sites and someone saw. Do you get it? Do you get what it would mean for me? The assistant captain? I want to be captain next year so maybe I can graduate early. No scholarship. No nothing. These guys aren't" - he made finger quotes - "evolved. They're not from Northern California. They don't do all-day sits or draw pictures." The dagger went straight in. "It's brutal in a locker room. - Author: Jandy Nelson

#38. I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course. - Author: Tiger Woods

#39. It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it.
(on Kieran Richardson) - Author: Rio Ferdinand

#40. As she reached for the plates, she wondered if her life could get any weirder. Her life savings had been handed over to a band of South American guerrillas, she had a phony engagement to a famous football player, she was homeless and jobless, and she was making breakfast for Mad Jack Patriot. - Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#41. I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades parties. I'm so good at breaking stuff down into syllables and sounds. If I were to be doing anything else besides being an actor, I would be a professional charades player. I'm not sure if it exists, but if it didn't, I'll create it. - Author: Wilson Bethel

#42. When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player. - Author: Oscar Robertson

#43. If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life. - Author: John Madden

#44. Some venues are more intimidating than others, but as professional players you enjoy the intimidating places more than the other kind. - Author: Ben Morgan