Player Quotes
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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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We're not drafting for next year's team. We're drafting for a talent base. An immediate need primarily is not as important as getting a player with the best potential available.
Chris Wallace
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I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.
Ndamukong Suh
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It's true that football is a job, and one works to earn money, but when there are so many feelings involved, it's hard to change clubs just to earn a bit more cash. I respect every player and their decisions, but that's my feeling.
Diego Godin
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I didn't really think about going to another club; I wanted to be a Tottenham player and play at Tottenham.
Dele Alli
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Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.
G. K. Butterfield
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Shaquille O'Neal, probably the best player on the planet. When you acquire someone of that magnitude, people are going to come. He's larger than life.
Eddie Charles Jones
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What I need as a player is just to get at-bats, I think.
Ben Zobrist
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Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's something everyone wants to be a part of.
Derek Jeter
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Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I think every player dreams to be No. 1 at some point.
Garbine Muguruza
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I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'
Anthony Browne
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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.
Albert Brooks
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I'm really focused on getting better as a player.
Kristaps Porzingis
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You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.
Keith Morris Black Flag
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My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.
Leander Paes
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For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
William Irwin Thompson
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He's very valuable to us. We can't afford to lose somebody like that.
Joe Gibbs
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For [Malcolm Subban] I know that he's the No. 1 ranked goalie in North America and the world right now, he's got a great opportunity. He's got to enjoy this whole process because it only comes once. Not that many players get the opportunity to walk up on that stage and get that jersey.
P. K. Subban
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For you to even enquire about one player, he is expensive. You go to buy a right-back, a left-back, or a central defender, and he is expensive.
Antonio Conte
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Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.
Brian McKnight
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I was a mediocre basketball player. But I was there, and I could remember the plays. And my basketball coach, after he retired from teaching, would come to my performances all the time. And I was very happy about that, because I was not memorable as a basketball player.
Johnny Mathis
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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.
Steve Kerr