Player Quotes
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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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.
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There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.
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The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.
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It is no mean feat to come second to a player like that. It's not easy for me to say something like that.
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I'm honored and I think the relationship with Ralph Lauren brand has been so long because it goes beyond the face or the guy. I don't feel that I'm a model at all, because I'm not. I'm a professional polo player that endorses a clothing company.
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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If you can have a really good coaching staff, and you can have a really good young quarterback and do a really good job in player personnel and string together multiple successful drafts, your window is not small in the NFL because of the quarterback.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it. You know how in New York there's a lot of scaffolding? I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck.
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I think I'm a very versatile player, that's how I was at LSU.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented.
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There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.
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I didn't have a record player.
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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
