Player Quotes
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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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 am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
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I didn't have a record player.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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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 have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!
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I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.
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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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When I started I was pretty well the only Aboriginal player who was playing tournaments.
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I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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Whoever likes football always likes to see the best player on the pitch.
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The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.
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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,'
