Player Quotes
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I don't understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to release a veteran player on a roster. I don't understand why their players association condones that.
Bobby Knight
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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.
Katrina Adams
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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.
Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
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It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.
Ryan Adams
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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.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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I want to say congratulations to Cleveland and Coach Blatt. LeBron is an incredible player.
Steve Kerr
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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.
Craig Johnston
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AB de Villers is the most complete player of the Modern Era.
V. V. S. Laxman
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That is NOT the arse of a £7million player!
Eamon Dunphy
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My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.
Zach Condon
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If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.
Jo Durie
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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
Arthur Ashe
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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.
B. R. Hayden
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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.
Lia Ices
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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.
J. B. Priestley
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When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives.
Nafis Sadik
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Martinelli’s attitude is what makes him a player
Gabriel Martinelli
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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.
Jahangir Khan
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I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in 'Django [Unchained]' - Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano-player but there's never a moment where Django plays the piano.
Quentin Tarantino
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In my time abroad, I learned to become a more complete player.
Christen Press
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I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
Nolan Ryan
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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.
Johan Cruyff
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
Rita Mae Brown
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Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world and do what I truly enjoy. Moreover, chess players love being their own boss and hate having to wake up early!
Viswanathan Anand