Player Quotes
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You can decide at 17 that you want to be a professional player. In Argentina, they start very young. They go to school in the morning and then do polo in the afternoon.
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There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.
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That is NOT the arse of a £7million player!
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One of the best players I've ever seen in my life! Spectacular on training!! Playing with him was a joy!
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It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.
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It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.
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I am hugely honored to represent my country in the Olympics and in World Cups, and I'm grateful for all the advantages being a professional soccer player brings my way - the opportunities to see the world, the camaraderie and friendships, and more.
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When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.
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I'm a star player when it comes to being sociable. It's because I'm inquisitive. When I meet someone for the first time, I want to start up a conversation with them.
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I'm really focused on getting better as a player.
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Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who's gonna love you when you're looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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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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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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The reality is that it's just the nature of the game. It's the nature of playing offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers, where your responsibilities as a player involve those little hits that are going to accumulate. You can't take that out of the game.
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All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
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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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Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.
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I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
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I want to say congratulations to Cleveland and Coach Blatt. LeBron is an incredible player.
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I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.
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My dad has been my coach since I was seven years old - from 7 to 18 is when he coached my club team - and so it was always in the family. He introduced me to soccer at a young age and also kind of molded me into a good player at a young age, too. Which then I grew to love the game and be as passionate as he was.
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No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.
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Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.
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The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.
