A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.
But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.
Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.
Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.
I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
I'm learning on the guitar all the time.
I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overd...
If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish.
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.
Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.
The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.
Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.
I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
