Player Quotes
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It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.
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When a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees.
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It's a great finish. As a player, there aren't many times when you get more nervous than hitting that second shot into 16, hitting to that island green on 17 and hitting that tee shot on 18.
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...the player who looks least engaged may be the most committed member of the group. A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again.
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You always miss a great player, but I think the players on this team have taken a lot of pride in overcoming obstatcles when we have a player down ? not only the offensive players, but the defensive players. We were very fortunate that we played that well.
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Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.
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Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.
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Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great guitar player, so pushing myself as a guitar player or pushing myself as a singer, as a performer, and just riding that fine line between being so hard on yourself that it's counter-productive and being so hard on yourself that nothing is ever good enough is what drives me.
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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.
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At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
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My favorite player is Tiger Woods. I think I can beat Tiger when I'm 20. It's a life goal.
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The greatest player in the world. He's got a fantastic vision of the game, and what he can do technically - it's crazy.
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I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.
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They just have to log minutes. As good a player as Tommie is, as good a player as Kevin is, they just need more minutes. They need to keep playing and they need to keep being challenged with great competition and they'll get their mouthful on Friday.
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The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?
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How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
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We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it.
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That's the nicest part of football; you can't do everything to stop a player.
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Tommie didn't get a great shot. There's a great player that made a great play. It wasn't a great designed play. He just made it work.
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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.
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I couldnt change who I am; I couldnt change the kind of player I am.
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If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?
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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.
