Player Quotes
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In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.
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It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them. Lou Holtz
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I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing up. I was very impressed with guys like Mitch Mitchell. I liked rock and roll drummers, and I loved rhythm and blues guys like Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown. Man, that band blew me away all of the time.
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I always kind of did my own thing, but it got me into trouble a lot, so I started listening to what people were telling me to do to show I was a team player.
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I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.
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You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.
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Shawn Kemp was the player that I grew up watching, when he was with the SuperSonics.
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Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play.
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I have always thought I was the best ever player.
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Prince never, ever mentioned it except to say he wished he was taller so he could play basketball. He was actually a really great basketball player.
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Coaching courses are still much too theoretical, and this is what you see reflected in the basic technical skills of the average player. I even see things deteriorating.
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Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
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I'm a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there's an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming 'Death in Paradise,' and I played all over the island and had the best time.
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Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.
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For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.
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I think I'm getting better as a basketball player.
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When Ozzie Virgil became the first Dominican player in the majors, his nationality was barely noticed. What the press and fans talked about was his skin color. He was the first black player on the Detroit Tigers, and a great deal of attention was paid to him as someone who crossed the color line.
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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.
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I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.
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As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.
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Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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I don't want to be known as a 'player.' I don't want to give plastic smiles on television and say 'No comments.'
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As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill at Leicester and Celtic and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.
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If a guy won't commit, he's a player.
