Player Quotes
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I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
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It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.
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To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.
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I wanted to be a complete player, and I felt like the dunks started to overshadow other parts of my game.
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All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
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Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.
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It's interesting too, that the coach of that Georgia Tech team who led his valiant warriors to those 222 points was none other than John Heisman. Yes, he whom the Heisman trophy is named for, an award that honors that college player who best exemplifies excellence and integrity.
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The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.
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Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.
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We think he has great flexibility for us.
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I talked to Grant Hill, and I told him, 'I played against you a lot, and now, hopefully, I'm getting to coach a player like you. Jabari has the opportunity to be a special player in this league. But it's not handed to you. He's going to work, and our jobs are to make him better each day.'
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I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player, because I was a girl. I would've been too shy to play with guys.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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He's not anybody's clone. He's Ken Griffey, Jr. As long as he continues to remind himself of that, he's going to be a very good player.
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AB de Villers is the most complete player of the Modern Era.
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And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.
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I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.
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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.
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Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.
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If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.
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I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.
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I kind of had to convince myself when I was playing for the Washington Freedom that this was the highest level that I'm going to reach. 'I'm going to be a professional player, and I'm going to try and be the best one I can be, but it's maybe just not in my cards to be an international player. I won't play in a World Cup.' That was hard for me.
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I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.
