Varsity Player Quotes

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. ~ Alan Ritchson

Control oil and you control money. That's how you become a dominant player in the new Great Game - the one that Putin has been playing so masterfully in his effort to engineer the demise of the dollar. ~ Marin Katusa

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport. ~ Sherman Alexie

You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them. ~ Sania Mirza

The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments. ~ Vince Lombardi

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument. ~ Steve Vai

Jeter is a six-tool player ... I've never eaten with him so I can't tell you if he has good table mannners, but I would imagine he has those too. ~ Johnny Oates

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation. ~ Vladimir Kramnik

I want the single player experience. ~ Wayne Brady

The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the Cheat Sheet, the video player, and in the breaking news slot in the first big box. The rest is all original, generated by Beast writers and editors. ~ Tina Brown

The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and team-sponsored blogs, player tweets, fanboy sites, rumor mills - churning bits of information and speculation into a clattering fog storm. Who will cut through the drivel and whim-wham to tell us what's really going on? ~ Robert Lipsyte

I can play in the 11 positions because a good player can play anywhere on the pitch. ~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs. ~ Frank Grillo

Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista. ~ Peter Thiel

I've seen some players with very big feet, and some with very small feet ~ David Pleat

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure. ~ Jason Giambi

I'm a Lakers fan. Kevin Garnett is my favorite player of all time because of his passion for the game. ~ Rahim Moore

Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living. ~ Elizabeth Lesser

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes. ~ Edward FitzGerald

I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything. ~ Lauren Groff

I need players to start thinking for themselves. ~ Guus Hiddink

I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it ... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it. ~ Tony Gwynn

And if they tell you you're not a team player, just congratulate them on being so observant. ~ George Carlin

Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait, ~ John Toshack

Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really the important thing. ~ Jack W. Szostak

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

It's not a fun process. There is no need for the team and a player to be on opposing sides a week or two before spring training. It's good to be on the same page. ~ Mark Teixeira

A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract. ~ Leigh Steinberg

He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master. ~ Jerry Wexler

The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think ... ahh, I've heard that lick before. ~ Tom Verlaine

One of the most striking developments has been the rise, fall and rise again of the semiconductor industry of the United States, which is, once again, the dominant player in the most advanced semiconductor product-markets. ~ Peter Dicken

I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off. ~ Kevin Dillon

My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather than hang with my peers after school, I wanted to just listen to the band. More than that, I wanted to play. ~ Jill Sobule

I dont see gold as a player in a healthy economy. ~ Arnon Milchan

We are professionals. We are going to finish that way. In reality, how we conduct ourselves in this period and how well our players play will be as good an interview as you can do - better than anything you could say. ~ Mike Hankwitz