“I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.” ThinkingKnowsWorldDoneWinningSuccessfulPlayerChampionshipSnooker Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan
“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.” KnowsWantHardGamesDifficultMy OwnSituationPlayerTeamHard WorkPersonalityCustomersAnalysisScrum Author:Alan Lewis
“I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.” KnowsWantEnoughPlayerTeam Author:Bill Parcells
“I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.” KnowsFirstsTwoMightThreeFourPlayerWinnerSlam Author:Patrick Rafter
“I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.” KnowsPlayAgeGamesStuffPlayerMirrorsAppearanceBothered Author:Wayne Rooney
“You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.” PeopleKnowsPlayPastBitsWatchesPlayerBiggerMalesRelateWatch Me Author:Samantha Stosur
“All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.” KnowsHomePlayer Author:Gordon Strachan
“I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsFeelsTryingMatterAbleGuyPlayerResponseStriveCoachesKnow It All Author:Gordon Strachan
“In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.” KnowsTwoGamesPlayerWeekFootballDisciplineClubsStaffPreparing Author:Graham Taylor
“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.” KnowsYearsHelpingSportsNumbersPlayerCoachesManagersDozen Author:Robin Yount
“People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.” PeopleThinkingKnowsCountryRecordsPlayerJazzStudiosBobBlondeNashvilleJazz Records Author:Elvis Costello
“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.” ThinkingKnowsYearsLongFacesSportsPlayerLong TimeSeniorLong Time AgoJuniorsNew Faces Author:Amelie Mauresmo
“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.” IfsKnowsEyeSportsPlayerJudgingCleanTennisDoping Author:Andy Murray
“There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%” KnowsMindDoubtPlayerBasketballMy TimeNo DoubtBasketball PlayerTorontoMasaiRaptors Author:Masai Ujiri
“I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.” KnowsFirstsUsedKnow HowPlayerFootballExpertiseFootball PlayerSprinters Author:Ato Boldon
“It obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game who know that the rules are ‘real’ only to the extent that we have created or accepted them, and that we can change them.” KnowsRealRealityGamesDifferencesPlayerAcceptedMaking A DifferencePawns Book:The art of change: strategic therapy and hypnotherapy without trance Source: The art of change: strategic therapy and hypnotherapy without trance
“It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.” KnowsWellsGamesPlayerTeamPressure Author:Cal Hubbard
“Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could.” IfsKnowsLittlesHardPlayAsksPlayerHarderHonestlyTrashIt Is What It IsHolding BackTrash Talk Author:Jason Babin