Player Quotes
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
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I try to be a complete player - in attack and in defence - and to improve every year.
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I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.
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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 in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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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 like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.
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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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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.
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Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
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You're going to play good. You're going to play bad. But as long as I stay healthy, I should be happy. Every player should feel the same way.
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My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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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.
