Sometimes there are not enough superlatives to describe a player.
Young is describing a player thinking, acting and executing cleanly.
"He's got the speed, got the moves," Ross said, describing a player.
Describing a player as a cult hero can often be pejorative, because generally that tends to mean "popular for some reason but not that good".
In college athletics, the term walk-on is used to describe a player without an athletic scholarship who volunteers for the team.
One of the favourite terms of Ron Atkinson was "amusement arcade", which he used to describe a player who was full of tricks and gimmicks but so short of "end product" that he was ultimately a waste of time.
Sportswriters who use words like courage to describe a player's comeback from arthroscopic surgery and tragedy to describe the end of a team's championship hopes might be sentenced to spend the next few months describing the various youth programs intended to promote international understanding.
Many baseball fans are familiar with the term "a cup of coffee" as in "he had a cup of coffee in the big leagues" a phrase which describes a player that spent a very short time on a Major League roster who spent most of their career playing on the minor league level.
However, S. Modica and A. Rustichini (1994, 1999) argue that even the more general possibility structures cannot be used to describe a player's unawareness.
When Barcelona midfield king Xavi describes a player from a rival team as the heir to his throne as Spain's dictator of play then you had better take note.
