Player Quotes
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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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I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.
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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 would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.
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I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
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I think throughout your whole career a player can improve.
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Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.
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In the past two or three years, the number of clubs has doubled ... we've got close to 8 000 players, about 60 to 80 clubs. It's not restricted to the metros any more, it's gone rural.
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I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.
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If you play a match, then you got to give it all to beat the opponent; there is nothing like playing against a great or a non-great player. I treat them all as opponents and aim to beat them.
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Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.
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So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.
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No celebrity bullshit,no self promotion,an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being
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It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.
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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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My record shows that I'm not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years.
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At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.
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The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.
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What brought me back here was my players, ... I know who Rashard Lewis is. I know who Nick Collison and Luke are, and I don't know what those other guys on other teams bring to the table. This is where I've made home and I didn't want anything different and I didn't need anything different.
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First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
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On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner's office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike Webster, a professional football player.
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I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.
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In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.
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Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.
