Player Quotes
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I always wanted to be a professional player, but when I started playing well in Challengers and, for the first time, I did well at ATP tournaments, I saw that these guys are also beatable.
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But I will never say anything about who they are, what teams they are on. I'm just saying there's some famous people, and I'm not the only one.
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I definitely think moving around helped shape me and has helped me be a better player.
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I'm a manager's player, in a way, because he can use me in a lot of different ways, and I'm willing to do that.
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I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.
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I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.
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The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.
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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'm an emotional player ... I like to leave it out there.
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I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.
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Even now as a manager, when I suffer a loss it still feels like a first loss, the first I suffered as a player. And when I win, it is like my first win, too. This is me, this is my personality, it is who I am and will always be.
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The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.
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I'm not a player! I'm the girlfriend type! I always have girlfriends.
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He doesn't mind seeking support. He did it as a player, and he did it with Team Canada, and I imagine he'll do it with coaching. He is not afraid to put quality people around him and let them do their jobs.
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You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where management has a great deal of integrity and they can depend on my word or anybody else's word in the organization, they feel secure. And if the players feel secure, they don't want to leave here. And if they don't want to leave here, they're going to do everything they can on the court to stay here.
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.
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A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.
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Once you prove yourself, that you're a utility player, they're going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for a film next Thursday at Fox or Sony or whatever. You kind of get a reputation.
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I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.
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Every player, every coach doesn't always see eye to eye.
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Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players.
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I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.
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I’m just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.
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I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
