Player Quotes
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
Adam Oates -
I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
Samantha Stosur
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Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling.
Craig Brown -
At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
Hannah Storm -
My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
Gavin DeGraw -
Congratulations to the Italian people for winning the World Cup. … They won after France’s best player got ejected for head butting. That’s the closest anyone in a French uniform has come to combat in 60 years
Jay Leno -
I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
Larry Brown
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
Carli Lloyd -
On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
Vin Scully -
My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.
Joel Grey -
I think that because I am rich, handsome and a great player people are envious of me. I don’t have any other explanation.
Cristiano Ronaldo -
All I wanted to be was a player.
Franco Harris -
I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.
Eric Bristow
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I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.
Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction -
As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.
Bob McNair -
I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.
Jason Chaffetz -
I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
Pablo Sandoval -
Fred Stuckey, 'Eric Clapton Interview,' Guitar Player 4 (June 1970) p. 47. guitarplayer.com
Eric Clapton Cream -
For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
Ian Lustick
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The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
Brian May Queen -
I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
Adam Oates -
At the end of my journey, I see myself as a Rocket. That's where I ended my career, and also the organization that did so much for me. They knew I had a vision, and I went to work for the owner, who's a man who believes in philanthropy and believed in me as a player.
Dikembe Mutombo -
I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area.
Mario Balotelli