Player Quotes
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It was a good feeling to have a lot of support. A lot of people respect me as a player but also as a person as well.
Kevin Martin
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I don't go into a game with specific targets. I don't pinpoint an opposing player before a match, trying to exploit a kind of weakness.
Diego Costa
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The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.
Anne Donovan
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My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.
Eric Williams
Blackstreet
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As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.
Bjorn Borg
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When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
Jerry Spinelli
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If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.
William Petersen
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I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.
Kevin Durand
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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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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
Lou Holtz
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If a guy won't commit, he's a player.
Kristin Cavallari
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My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.
Jason Kidd
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When I was a player, I'd have a pre-match meal of the biggest lump of fillet steak you could find, followed by rice pudding. Other times I'd have a steak and kidney pie. I'd finish the meal at 12.30 and be playing two-and-a-half hours later.
Fabio Capello
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When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.
Bobby Knight
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For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.
Payne Stewart
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I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.
Jerry West
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A player has no use for an agent. None.
Lou Holtz
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I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. The collected stories of John Updike, the second volume of T.C. Boyle's collected stories, and Stanley Crouch's book about the rise and times of our genius saxophone player Charlie Parker. These are deep books, books that you can get lost in.
Alan Cheuse
