#layers

Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places. ↗

— Alessandro Del Piero

#although #competing #games #get #good

There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#excuse #go #going #guys #had

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#basie #black #count #course #drummers

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar. ↗

— Bob Livingston

#indian #play #players #these

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. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#get #going #good #guess #guys

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies. ↗

— Mike Simpson

#conducting #deal #diplomatic #diplomatic relations #flexibility

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out. ↗

— Sam Snead

#minds #more #never #next #next time

It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#always #generations #great #guitar #guitar players

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#defenders #dynamism #initiative #like #modern

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#chess #even #exception #fischer #only