Player Quotes
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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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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 didn't have a record player.
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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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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
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I'm the most loyal player money can buy.
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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 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 grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.
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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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My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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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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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.
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I was gonna live with Todd Gill, another young player, and the general manager grabbed me by the collar, put me against the wall and said, 'You're living with a family. Find one,'
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Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.
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If you're not a player, it's hard to get into this league. You need a small opportunity that you turn into a bigger opportunity.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.
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It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
