Player Quotes
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A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.
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Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.
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I think Coutinho's a great team player with a huge amount of talent. He can use both feet. He scores goals. He links play well and gets between the lines in attack.
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Messi or Ronaldo best player in the world? In the world, I would say Ronaldo. Messi is from another planet.
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I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.
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It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.
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Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are caused by either impatience, complacency, exhaustion, or all of the above.
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No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.
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I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.
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Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.
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I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.
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There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.
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When you're on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn't do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by - legacy. Go about things the right way.
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I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.
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I'm a rugby player, really, and I knew I was going to get to him, and when he was about two yards away I just put my head down. There was no malice. I was going for the ball with my head, which I understand is a legitimate move in soccer.
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I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.
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Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.
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If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.
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Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
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If you think about it, player for player we are fairly huge. It's rare when you can put that type of lineup in and mix in some size and athleticism.
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The thing I like to do when I'm making records is to keep it exciting, as opposed to, 'There's a bass player, guitar player... ' Just a little variety.
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I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.
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I was never going to be the best player the world has ever seen but one thing I can be proud of is that I genuinely believe I have become the best player that I could have become.
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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
