Player Quotes
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I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs apart, down to their bones. Songwriters would hire me to produce their demos, which lead me to become a songwriter. The relationship and power music has to TV and film attracted me to composing [and] I learned to write for instruments other than guitar.
Danny Jacob
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Every player has played with gay guys.
Charles Barkley
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What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.
Tom Heinsohn
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I'm very proud to be a professional tennis player. I'm really happy to be doing something that I love. With this comes responsibility, and I am honored when I am told that I have inspired someone to play tennis.
Ana Ivanovic
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I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.
Ryan Guzman
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All I want is to have fun in what I'm doing every day. I don't want to break records. To become the greatest player ever could take me like...10 more years and I don't think I'll still be playing at 31.
Serena Williams
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I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.
Michel Platini
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The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
Merlin Olsen
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Confidence? Are you kidding me? I mean, please. Look, some players grow up and play like that. I remember losing junior matches. Just being down 5-2 in the third, and they all just start slapping shots.
Roger Federer
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I believe the more you come to Europe, it makes you a better player, and it gives them an advantage because the African style is different from the European style.
Nwankwo Kanu
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I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.
Carlos Delgado
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We felt that she is a outstanding player. She is competitive, tough, a leader and can play the point guard position - which we need.
Amy Ruley
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The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
William Feather
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Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.
Craig Brown
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I think my father is probably the best coach ever because, if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.
Serena Williams
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Anytime a guy gets traded at midseason - a young player - it's surprising.
Jon Gruden
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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.
Diego Maradona
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A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.
Katie Salen
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They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.
Rajon Rondo
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I mean, to win a major, you've got to be a good player and you've got to get your breaks, as well, to win.
Retief Goosen
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Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.
Asdrubal Cabrera
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I can hit Shahid Afridi six sixes in an over but i know when he is going to hit 6 sixes in my over then the response of the crowd is something different. He is among top 5 dangerous players in current Cricket. I place my self at 6
Chris Gayle
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My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.
Andrew Mayer Cohen
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Pressure to me now has become almost part of my life. It doesn't really affect me anymore. People talk about me being under pressure or having pressure of having to come in and be this great player that everyone expects me to be right away. It doesn't really faze me. It's become second nature now. It's almost like it would be weird not to have it.
Reggie Bush