Player Quotes
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.
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Sometimes I see it a foul by an Arsenal player, but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.
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One or two years ago, I didn't know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I've learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.
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Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.
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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.
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It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.
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I'm a fast player and I thought that I would fit in because they defend well and break.
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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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Every player dreams of a big league.
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Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
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Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.
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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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Every player has played with gay guys.
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If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.
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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.
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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 was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
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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
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If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.
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The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.
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The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.
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I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.
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I think I know now, each team is different, each player is different. I don't believe everybody has got to be the same.
