Player Quotes
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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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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
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I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
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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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The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
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I'm always learning, especially with the different formations. It will help me in the long run to maybe become a forward player - on the wing or something.
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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'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken way, or you flop notes at the right time and you don't have to play stuff that would take seven years to learn.
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When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners
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I think most of the people like the kind of player like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. They're pretty tall, and they can do everything.
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I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same kind of acting. When I go into a picture I have only one character to look after. If the author didn't do him justice, I try to add whatever the creator of the part overlooked.
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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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At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.
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I'm the kind of player who is never satisfied on the pitch. If I score twice, I'm already thinking about getting a third one.
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I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it’s just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.
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Everything that happens to you, I feel like it helps you develop as a person, as a player.
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Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the architect of what happens.
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It's not easy to speak about myself, but I am a very fast player.
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I'm a huge LeBron James fan. I love The Heat. He's an incredible basketball player.
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I think you need people who can advise you; that is more important that an agent. They are important because they help players move, but I have some experience of agents working with players who have done things not to help the player but to help themselves.
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I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of the game, there's no harm in hanging around those guys at all.
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We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.
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Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player.
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