Player Quotes
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I'm John McEnroe-like. I'm coming forward every opportunity I get. My wingspan covers some ground at the net. My serve is OK. I can move it around enough. My groundstrokes are good enough to hang in a rally with a good player. But generally, my goal is to put away a point quickly.
Matt Kuchar
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I give him all the respect in the world. He is the No. 1 player in the league, by far. It’s like that. With a player like him, he just wants that challenge. He’s just that fierce competitor. He doesn’t want to get out-showed. He’s the one who everybody’s afraid of.
Kobe Bryant
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As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward, and it's all linear.
David Sanborn
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I thought I was a pretty decent soccer player. I'm not.
Leah Pipes
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The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
Edward Fitzgerald
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I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.
Sean Durkin
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Rex brings out the macho talk and tells everyone this is what we're going to be and what we're going to do. And you see what happened. The players did it. It worked.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.
Brittany Howard
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I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.
Leo Kottke
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If we're going to solve the problems in North Korea, the first thing we're going to have to do is start helping them get basic amenities like electricity, televisions, and DVD players over there. Otherwise, how can they watch 'Garden State'?
Zach Braff
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I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.
Garbine Muguruza
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Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
John McEnroe
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A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.
Michel Platini
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At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.
Brian Dennehy
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Your job is never secure as a football player - or coach.
Jason Pierre-Paul
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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've been a good player my whole life and expect to continue to work hard and continue to do everything that I have done and try not to take any steps back. Try to stay the course and be the best player and the best teammate and hopefully the best leader I can be, and play as well as I can.
Jared Goff
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I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.
Pau Gasol
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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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Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.
Allan Houston
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I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.
Eric Cantona
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I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.
Pal Benko
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As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.
Burgess Owens
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I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!
Aziz Ansari