Player Quotes - Page 10

• When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

  Shay Given

  Soccer, Football, Goal

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• Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Soccer, Football, Barcelona

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• The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced .... Zooommmmm.

  Joe Royle

  Soccer, Football, Trouble

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• Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had.

  Tony Cascarino

  Soccer, Football, Yards

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• If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

  Tommy Docherty

  Soccer, Football, Division

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• There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had.

  Alan Parry

  Soccer, Football, Men

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• His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Football, Feet

  Eduardo Galeano (1998). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.194, Verso

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• Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Fashion

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• Representing Canada as a hockey player is always a tremendous honor, which also comes with a lot of responsibility. Being able to compete and win a gold medal on our home soil made it a once in a lifetime experience. Capping off the best ever performance by not only the Canadian athletes, but also Vancouver and all Canadians, made for an amazing Olympic experience.

  Scott Niedermayer

  Responsibility, Home, Athlete

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• When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

  B. B. King

  Men, Thinking, Guitar

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• I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

  Ruud Gullit

  Determination, Eye, Winning

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• If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

  Ruud Gullit

  Should Have, Fields, Insulted

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• Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

  Ruud Gullit

  Football, Athlete

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• I am very excited to be included in the very first college baseball Hall of Fame class. For me to be honored with these coaches and players that I have grown to admire and respect is very special. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Lubbock.

  Skip Bertman

  Baseball, College, Class

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• Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

  John Green

  Winning, Games, Glory

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• Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

  Fred Couples

  Hard Work, Golf, Years

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• I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

  Fred Couples

  Swings, Iron, Guy

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• I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Thinking, People

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• I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

  Fred Couples

  Hair, Average, Years

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• I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

  Fred Couples

  Thinking, Swings, Self

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• If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

  Gordie Howe

  Hockey, Want, Has Beens

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• There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

  Gordie Howe

  Games, Wish, Different

  Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

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• There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

  Joe Namath

  Football, Talking, Tongue

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• I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

  Diego Maradona

  Mind, Jersey, Make You Happy

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• English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

  Kevin Keegan

  Football, Way, Dominant

  "The Saturday interview: Kevin Keegan" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.

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