Sentences with phrase «than a great player»

I always share with employees this quote from basketball coach John Wooden and it's mentioned as part of my company's core values: «A player that makes the team great is better than a great player.»

so, what the author of this fine article is saying, in other words, is, that he, the author, knows more about the game, and, the way it is played, than our greatest player ever!.

Not exact matches

As Stulberg tells Science of Us, behavior scientist K. Anders Ericsson discovered in the 1990's that what separates great performers — musicians, artists, chess players, even physicians — from everyone else was not that they practiced more than their peers.

As a result, risky asset classes such as equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion of bonds.

Mike Caro, an author, casino executive and professional poker player, once said, «Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.»

In this intuitive test, players» field goal percentages were not markedly greater after streaks of makes than after streaks of misses.

Tanking is obviously an inexact science, and has much more to do with lineup construction and the allocation of playing time than anything else — players are professional athletes, and convincing them to lose on purpose to bring younger, cheaper new talent to their franchise isn't exactly a great sell.

Rather than rest on his laurels as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Johnson, who retired in 1996, now spends his days honing his skills as an entrepreneur.

After all, it's easier for a few great players to show up to every game (as we have mostly done) than a reliable team.

The goal is to buy and sell these shares and to accumulate a greater amount of money than the other players by the game's end.

If a Pope does all this as well or perhaps even better than, for example, John XXIII, well, then he is not only a Pope but a wonderful Christian, then it happens that, if I may say so, the president of the chess club is for once also himself a great chess player.

Greater joy than being a professional NBA basketball player all - star.»

Billy Sunday, that great baseball player turned evangelist said that more men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Wenger has mostly used the second string squad at the start of any season to great effect, most teams aren't at full strength or match fit and he plays that Wengerball numbers game, throwing in squad players who are fit and raring to go whilst the first team get ready, we'll win 2 of our 3 opening games and he'd rather that than splash 100m on 3 players and get the same amount of points.

But — other than those few items, they'd both be great tennis players.

referring decisions also go in our favour, for instance that dortmund goal sanogo scored was clearly offside, these things are apart of football, GREAT teams overcome these obstacles, GREAT teams do not crumble with 3 or 4 goal leads, GREAT teams do not concede 3 + goals in 40 mins REGULARLY, GREAT teams average more than one tackle every 90 mins, GREAT teams don't need more 7 clear cut chances to score, united have academy players in defence, in fact our defensive players are 15x better but VAN GAAL will get a result, united have had an injury list just as long if not longer than ours but VAN GAAL will get a result, united have just gone through a managerial shift but VAN GAAL will get a result, so why on earth are united in the title race and not arsenal?

No player is greater than a club.

Finally, I watched a replay of the Hull City game and noticed most experienced players, if not all, tried to avoid playing a pass to Coquelin even when he was in a great position.To the normal A.O.B mind, they'll say it's a ploy by Wenger to foil Coquelin but I think it would be easier to convince a young player not to pass to him than an older one.

Giroud misses more than he hits, Walcott has NEVER delivered his expected talent, Welbeck will NEVER be the striker to score 20 goals a season Coqellin will NOT go a whole season injury or suspension free, Sanchez and Ozil WILL have down period during the season, all teams have these problems to a greater or lesser degree but most of the top teams will address these problems and players either inprove or are sold and replaced with better or at least more consistant players, NOT Wenger he keeps doing the same thing over and over with the same players and he expects a different result but gets the same outvome time and time again, yet its ALWAYS someone else's fault be it the Ref or the linesman or the opposition or bad luck or whatever and whoever and its NEVER the fact that HE has done nothing to change the situation and LOOKS LIKELY to not change it next time around.

Yes there has been problems with Alexis of late and I hope it's not on purpose to force a transfer with one season remaining, he's in a great position move and contract wise so I'd hate to think a player of his talents would act anything other than professional.

The best season of Sanchez we ended 5th, no player is greater than d team, some have even forget a team is made up of eleven players, most fans rebuke loyal players n praise player with zero loyalty.

20 minutes is better than none I wish him well reminds me of Pieres great player.

The guy had a great game v west ham but his ego lets him down, but Wenger his comments on the defensive cock ups, it is the same comments on all the losses so surely he needs to rectify the prob Number one drop the BF German that can't head a ball can't run he is a liability every time he puts on the shirt even Debuchy jumps higher than him Gibbs can't defend he is a nice guy but not first choice L Back Chocqelen has proved he is a good player that can get better what we need is an Ozil type midfielder that has more guts to play good balls through to runners not high balls that you hope will find a target So a defender that can defend a left back and a midfielder and then look out enough is enough on what the problems are If the car won't run right you Fix it Wenger now is the time to FIX it CB

We are already a bit week in our ability to attract the world's best players so not being able to offer CL football IMO is a greater handicap than being able to tell an Aubamaynag we won the FA cup.

But I have to admit that he's done a better job than I expected of him by bringing in some great players and playing defensive football.

I know we now have a few more chants for our players than we did have about a year ago, and that is great, as mostly they are all good chants

Afterall where are we going to get a specialist dm player who is young enough to mould, shouldn't bemoan bench time, is apprently a great reader of the game and good passer, will be a better number 2 than flamini all for 8.5 m?

But I am saying that adding just one Guard, even if he's great, more times than not doesn't elevate the rest of your roster like a stud LB or defensive player can.

SEE ALSO: Tottenham hope to sign Chelsea winger, Jose Mourinho will look to block the deal Ten Players much better for country than club, including Arsenal and Chelsea stars Best Premier League XI of the decade so far: Chelsea & Man United dominate, Suarez & Arsenal great up front

I am not saying that Ozil is not great or doesn't add something to the team but I fear you are totally writing off other players and styles of play simply because you believe Ozil is too much better than them without actually analysing what went on in the game.

For me Sanchez is better than Hazard, Sanchez had impact on whole team, Cazorla and Ozil are tracking and defending, he led team with example, every Arsenal player is better cuz of him, if you going to compare 2 players you need to look all contribution, yeah Hazard has great dribble stats, but considering this is Sanchezs first season and impact he had, my choice and any reasonble man would be Sanchez.

There was no problem with Holding starting.The problem was with Monreal starting.If people are saying Monreal starts over Holding this means a LB is better than a CB at LCB which is more of a disgrace to the CB.Monreal is good but he does not have the qualities of a CB to play there for long.He's not your stand out tackler, interceptor or ball winner.He doesn't have the height or even the strength.He's just a solid 1v1 player but being a great CB is not all about 1v1.

we had great players, good ones and not so good but definitely enough material for a real shot to the title, instead every year the same injuries, referees, bad luck anything but the truth, AW is done he just doesn't have it anymore and must retire, still honorably and have a new coach with fresh ideas revamp this team... other than that

If he compromises then great, but I think we could have a better player than him for 120,000 - 150,000 a week.

Both great players to be sure but IMO, Ovi's impact on the Caps has been greater than John's Impact on the Bullets.

One lucky Player will take home a case of Greater Than each week (curtesy of Jon Sider of Team Schwartz and co.).

While reaching the 1,000 hits threshold isn't all that impressive for a baseball player (more than 1,200 players have done it in the history of the game), it's still a great feat for a human being.

Arsenal have now started the short run of pre-season games in preparation for the tough start to a crucial Premier League season in which the pressure on Arsene Wenger and the players to mount a serious title challenge is greater than ever after blowing what appeared to be a golden chance last time around and with the gap since our last successful campaign now more than 12 years.

There are so many knee jerkers on this forum it's laughable.Spurs were better than us today.Accept it.We played the same way against Man City we won, Wenger is a genius.We play the same way again Spurs and loose.Wenger is crap.If we had played free flowing football against Spurs and lost, Wenger would have been blamed for not playing defensively.Sometimes you have to accept when a team is better.Harry Cain is a great player at the moment but lets see whether he is any good next season.

Of the plays you list none are recent aside from Santi who was signed in 2011 who is a great player but Montreal is no more than an average player and Kolasinac who has not been playing that well and the dinosaur has treated as a squad player of late.

The first goal is remarkable for the defensive chaos in the visitor's ranks: each desperate hack clear only created a greater hole, and by the time Nigel Winterburn clipped a cross onto Alan Smith's head, there were more attacking players in the six - yard box than there were defenders.

IMO, diaby was to much gift than wilshere... the truth is wilshere jas a nice dribble an avereage pass and an awfull shoot... he has a lot of energy and playa with his hearth... the last was the best of his qualities... he is a fan, so he can die for the team... but talking about football quality, diaby was a lot better... diaby was absoulutly outstanding each time he plays... inteligent player, dribbling, pace, strenght, great pass, great shot... losing him was a very low kick, one of those things that wenger was not guiltt but victim (one of just a few)

While Neville makes valid points about the former Juventus man's concentration, he certainly looked a great deal more convincing during his time in Serie A and is capable of much better than this — after all, no player is perfect.

He will get more leeway and get put up with to an extent far greater than any other players.

Number of guys at positions at greater need available at 9 sure, number of players likely to have a better career than James?

Replacing Wenger and the club's mentality would have greater effect than merely replacing one or two players.

Fultz is only 19 so he's younger than any other player on the Bucks, which means there's greater growth potential.

We're a big club, that's widely respected, with the finance, with a great stadium, with great support and in a City that players want to live in (a lot more attractive than Manchester or Liverpool!).

Liverpool's need for reinforcements out wide could be even greater than United's as well, with reports today from the Daily Mirror suggesting that star player Raheem Sterling is in advanced talks over an exit from the club after Manchester City made significant progress with a # 45m bid.

Itâ $ ™ s not even a style, itâ $ ™ s a philosophy and way of playing football that is greater than any single player.