Player Quotes
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.
Jane Leavy
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LeBron's probably the best player in the world, so you just have to make it tough for him, make him take tough jump shots and things like that.
Jaylen Brown
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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.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
David Morse
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I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.
Kevin Plank
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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
George Bernard Shaw
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A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.
Fuzzy Zoeller
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It's tough coming out of Nebraska, where you're the man and you have to score, to going to the guy that sets the team up and being a role player.
Tyronn Lue
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Lindor is a good player. When I was 20, I wasn't conditioned like he is.
Asdrubal Cabrera
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I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.
Bryan Adams
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When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."
Dick Vitale
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That is NOT the arse of a £7million player!
Eamon Dunphy
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Cristiano is an explosive type of player, with great technique, but he's still not as gifted as Messi in my opinion. Messi is more of a genius than Cristiano. Cristiano is so strong physically, so powerful, but Messi has more creativity.
Fabio Capello
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The plate is in fair territory and the player never left the plate. It hit off the plate and stayed right on it. He's got to run. I teach my players to run out everything. If they hit it, they have to run. That was just a mistake and he's got to know to run on that.
B. R. Hayden
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I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.
Wesley Borland
Big Dumb Face
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The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
Marilyn vos Savant
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I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.
Andres Iniesta
