“When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.” PeoplePlayerFieldsTrackOlympicsVolleyballTrack And FieldVaultsVolleyball PlayerPole Vault Author:Diana Lopez
“American field players would really help themselves if they were exposed to a steady stream of box experience. Box lacrosse is an extremely valuable background for a young player, we need to incorporate more of the indoor skills in to the field game. It is almost a requirement to have a top player with indoor experience on your roster right now.” IfsNeedsHelpingYoungGamesPlayerFieldsRight NowSkillsBoxesValuableBackgroundsStreamsExposedSteadyRequirementsLacrosseRosters Author:Dom Starsia
“I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.” YearsWellsLongMadeLastsTalkingKnownPlayerFieldsCoupleOppositionWell KnownMy ThoughtsAbusive Author:Ricky Ponting
“I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.” PlayerFieldsQuietCreditSpeedGrandfatherMy Grandfather Author:Chris Davis
“To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.” MenBelieveHardPlayPresidentLinesPlayerFieldsFootballFairsSimileFootball Field Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.” PeopleIfsWritingMotivationalWatchesAlivePlayerFieldsThousandPaidTwentiesChosenInstructionTrappedSpectatorsEightyEdits Author:Seth Godin
“I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.” PersonsPlayerFieldsBaseballGood PersonBaseball PlayerBeing A Good PersonGood Baseball Author:Bryce Harper
“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.” DifficultCan DoDealsPlayerFieldsFootballEuropeItalianConsistencyFootball Field Author:Andriy Shevchenko
“After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.” WayPlayGuyTurnsPlayerFieldsBaseballThat GuyBenchesStale Author:Mickey Mantle
“I had the vision of creating my own camp to make sure I was teaching the campers what I wanted. Plus I picked other players that were good on the field and off so we could be great role models for these girls to look up to. I hope to inspire others and encourage them to go after their dreams.” LooksDreamWantedGirlMy OwnVisionRolesPlayerTeachingFieldsInspireCreatingModelsLook UpPlusCampsRole ModelsAnd OffInspire OthersCampersGreat Role Models Author:Jennie Finch
“I think that when young players really see their game rise next level, it's when practices are like competition and there's no separation there. Of course, there are adrenaline and the butterflies; you don't have that so much in practice. You want to fake yourself out and try to get them there because you want to be as close to that game mentality as you can when you step on that field every single day whether it's practice or in your backyard or down the street with your dad.” ThinkingWantTryingYoungCoursesNextGamesLevelsStepsPracticePlayerStreetsFieldsDadCompetitionSeparationFakeMentalityButterflyAdrenalineBackyardsNext LevelYour Dad Author:Jennie Finch
“Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength... all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!” UnitedSawsPlayerFieldsTrainingTechniqueAttributesManchesterManchester UnitedScholes Author:Laurent Blanc
“People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.” PeopleIdeasOpinionPlayerTeamFieldsBest Players Author:Jack Welch
“The Houston Astros want to change the name of Enron Field where they play. I guess the Enron name could cause problems for them. Like players could steal a base and then deny it.” WantPlayProblemNamesCausesPlayerFieldsDenyStealingHoustonEnron Author:Jay Leno
“All true competitors in any field and walk of life take adversity and are strengthened from it. They develop a reputation of determination and toughness that wins more decisive moments in life than winning shots. Bobby Blair was one tough player. Playing him was like going into a phone booth with an angry bobcat. His massive talent was only surpassed by his courage to hit the big shots under the most pressure. No one ever looked forward to playing him. It was going to be pain and suffering if you wanted to go the distance it took to beat him.” IfsMomentsBigsWantedPainSufferingWinningWalksPlayerTalentFieldsBeatsShotsToughDeterminationPressureAdversityAngryDistancePhonesReputationMassiveCompetitorsToughnessBlairWalks Of LifePain And SufferingBig ShotsDecisive MomentsPhone BoothBobcats Author:Luke Jensen
“The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.” PeopleKindHelpingWinningFeltSuccessfulPlayerTeamFieldsEmpathyStandingRealizationBeing SuccessfulLiberatingStanding Down Author:Oliver Kahn
“The attitude in terms of how players work both on and off the field has a massive impact on us as coaches but also the performance and how the team does as well.” WellsDoeTermAttitudePlayerTeamFieldsPerformancesImpactCoachesMassiveAnd Off Author:Warren Gatland
“Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.” TwoHardMightThreeGamesTermEffortPlayerFieldsPerformancesGet BetterExtrasThree TimesExtra Effort Author:Warren Gatland
“No matter what I do on the baseball field, no matter how hard I try to be a good player, no matter how hard I try to be a good father or a good husband, I can never do enough. I can never be perfect in this world. But God's there to tell me that it's not what you do, it's whom you believe in and it's Him loving me.” WorldTryingBelieveI CanMatterHardEnoughFatherPerfectPlayerFieldsThis WorldHusbandBaseballNo Matter WhatGood FatherGood HusbandLoving MeBaseball Field Author:Mark Teixeira
“There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.” PeopleThinkingMenRealFatherAttitudePlayerFieldsGrewMajorsGrew UpStandardsMen And WomenBaseballReal LifeLeagueBaseball PlayerDouble StandardMajor LeagueMajor League Baseball Author:Katie Uhlaender
“I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.” PlayerFieldsFootballSoccerAtmosphereThriveSoccer PlayerFootball Field Author:Pat McAfee
“When I retire and I'm back at home with me kids, they're not going to care that I smiled too much on the field. They're not going to care what kind of team player I was.” KindHomeCareKidsToo MuchPlayerTeamFieldsRetiringTeam PlayerI'm Back Author:Jim Edmonds
“The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.” LongSometimesAsksPlayerFieldsBaseballMarkDistanceInternationalLong DistancePlaying FieldsBest PlaceOperatorsBallparks Author:Thomas Boswell
“The best thing that a coach can have is experience. The first time that you're going out to lead a team on the field, you have certainly thought about what you're going to say, but it gets easier as you go. You'll learn what works and what doesn't, not just about what you do on the field but what you say to players to get them motivated.” FirstsPlayerTeamFieldsEasierFirst TimeCoachesBest ThingsMotivatedGoing Out Author:Vince Kehres
“Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.” LeaderStepsPlayerFieldsReturnSpringVery GoodGood LeaderGanguly Author:Ricky Ponting
“You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.” WantFeelsTryingPlayJobsActorsGamesPlayerTeamFieldsCoachesAssets Author:James Mangold
“Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, 'Okay, here it is.' You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence.” IfsWayEnoughShowsPracticePlayerPlansFieldsOkaySellsConvinceBlackboard Author:Joe Gibbs
“They call it football, but the object of the game is to bash the other guy so hard that he's eventually carried off the field on a stretcher. I can't watch football anymore. My psychiatrist said it's better that way. I used to watch a game, see the players in a huddle - and think they were talking about me.” ThinkingWaySaidI CanHardUsedGuyGamesTalkingWatchesPlayerFieldsObjectsFootballPsychiatristOther GuysBashTalking About Me Author:Jackie Mason
“Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy.” CulturePlayerFieldsFootballPureCompetitionIntenseBeansSausageDopingEnglish FootballLagerBelchingBaked Beans Author:Paolo Di Canio
“The NFL has done a great job in giving players information on how to go to a second career after football and how to invest their money while they're playing to ensure when their career is over, that they have something else in place to fall back on. One of the big things the NFL does is promote education in different fields.” GivingDoeDifferentDoneBigsJobsFallCareersPlayerInformationFieldsFootballNflBig ThingsFall BackGreat Job Author:Kamerion Wimbley
“When you get out in the field, it's just like any other game. You want to be the same player, the same team that has gotten them to that point. I don't think you have to do anything special. Just be yourself and allow all the time you put in that take over and get the job done.” ThinkingWantDoneJobsGamesPlayerTeamSpecialFieldsBeing YourselfJust Be YourselfGet The Job Done Author:Stephen Curry
“We have a great field and I'm very happy about that. It's a tough time of year as it gets closer to the Masters, but I'm appreciative of the players who are here, and I'm expecting a great week.” YearsPlayerWeekFieldsMastersToughExpectingVery HappyTough TimesAppreciative Author:Arnold Palmer
“There is a feeling when you are in Yankee Stadium that it is a very sacred ground you are walking on and you know you had the same feelings that other great players have had in other eras that played right there on that field.” KnowsFeelingsPlayerFieldsWalkingSacredErasYankeesStadiumsYankee Stadium Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.