Player Quotes
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I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.
Jennifer Tilly
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And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
Jose Mourinho
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Messi is a great player. Playing against him is not good - it is bad.
Neymar
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I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
Andy Rooney
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I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.
Frank Lampard
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I will give 100 per cent and play with my life in every game. That's one of my main features as a player.
Diego Godin
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I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.
Carmelo Anthony
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The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.
Andrew Bogut
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Every poker player is smarter than me.
Penn Jillette
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Randy Rhoads had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
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They'll forget all the rubbish when I've gone, and they'll remember the football. If only one person thinks I'm the best player in the world, that's good enough for me.
George Best
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The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.
Bob Paisley
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He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.
Andy Roddick
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China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.
Ben Bernanke
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I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.
Curt Flood
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One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.
Duncan Jones
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Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he's a great player, and what you've seen with him is he's gotten better every year.
Eli Manning
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I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.
Lee DeWyze
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I think every player should be allowed to stay or leave a club.
Neymar
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Music left my life for a while, to be honest. It wasn't that I didn't like it, but you know, I'm not really a solo player.
Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
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Psychology plays a big part but I always say psychology will only be a differentiator when the players are of equal technical strength.
Viswanathan Anand
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You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.
Colin Kaepernick
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I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.
Diana Ross
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From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.
Jim Morris