For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
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.
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.
There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.
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.
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.
I've always been mentally tough. Believe me, you have to be that way when you've been an Old Firm player living in Glasgow.
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's something everyone wants to be a part of.
Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
