Player Quotes
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I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.
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So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
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I think any player, as a rookie coming into any sport, has to prove themselves.
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The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
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No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.
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I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.
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At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.
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Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which, I admit, are very good for the ordinary club player. But once you've reached a certain strength you get the impression that everything that Euwe writes is a lie.
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I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
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I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.
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Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don't fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it's not acceptable.
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When you want to be a good player in next years worldcup you wanna be in good shape to appear strong at the tournament.
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We're counting on Sean being here. We had a good talk about it today. We're both on the same page.
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I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.
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Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.
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Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.
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I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
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Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
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I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.
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We don't get the Tony gift basket anymore. You used to get incredible swag - there was like $5,000 worth of stuff. I remember getting an MP3 player, gift certificates to restaurants, a three-year gym membership.
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When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.
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In order to be a guitar player, you have to play guitar.
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Messi won 3 Ballons d'Or and is competing for another one. He will be the best player in the world until he retires.
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I'm a huge LeBron James fan. I love The Heat. He's an incredible basketball player.
