Best Players Quotes - Page 8

• Torres was easily the best player I have ever played with in my career. I loved him. And when he approached me and said he wanted out, it was like a knife to the heart.

  Steven Gerrard

  Heart, Player, Knives

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• Building discipline, earning respect and overcoming adversity are all parts of a winning game plan. If you don't have a game plan, where are you going? When I'm talking about a game plan, I'm talking about how you go about being the best player you can be and how you go about being successful in life.

  Walt Frazier

  Adversity, Successful, Winning

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• Neymar is undoubtedly the best player in Brazil. He deserves to play in the best team in the world; next to the best player in the world, Messi.He is a very good player with great quality and a great future.I have no doubt. For me, Neymar is a genius.

  Pele

  Team, Player, Doubt

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• Messi is the best player in the history of football, and that’s why I prefer Barça over Real Madrid.

  Antonio Cassano

  Football, Real, Player

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• Congratulations to the Italian people for winning the World Cup. ... They won after France's best player got ejected for head butting. That's the closest anyone in a French uniform has come to combat in 60 years.

  Jay Leno

  Congratulations, Italian, Winning

  "The Tonight Show", July 11, 2006.

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• Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Stars, Player, Games

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• Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Past, Player, Years

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• In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.

  Stephen Potter

  Player, Games, Names

  Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”

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• The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

  Steven Gerrard

  Player, Want, Lasts

  "Henry pounces to put Champions League in reach" by Kevin McCarra, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2006.

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• The best player I ever played against is Thierry Henry. He was something else; i've played against Rooney and Ronaldo and players like that but i think he was the best player ever to play in the Premier League

  Jamie Carragher

  Player, Thinking, League

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• He who gets the best players usually wins.

  Bobby Bowden

  Sports, Winning, Player

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• Kenny Dalglish is a hero of mine and is the best player to ever wear a red shirt.

  Steven Gerrard

  Hero, Player, Red

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• God gives you opportunities and I'm thankful that the Chiefs gave me this opportunity. I'm very grateful to be on this team. I'm just going out there to try and be the best player that I can be for this team and take it from there.

  Justin Cole

  Team, Grateful, Opportunity

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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• I started to really believe in myself, and my abilities, when I won the World Under-10 championship in Doral, Florida. I was nine and saw for the first time that I was amongst the best players in the world for my age. This was a massive confidence-builder for me.

  Rory McIlroy

  Believe, Player, Florida

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• LeBron James is the best player, hands down. He is easily moving into the territory of one of the best players of all time and may end up being the best player of all time.

  Howard Bryant

  Moving, Player, Hands

  "Steve Ballmer, Serena Williams Headline The Week In Sports". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 31, 2014.

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• My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.

  Luis Suarez

  Player, Champions League, Years

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• The cards are bigger than you. You're not bigger than the cards. The cards are the best player at the table. So, let them come to you and don't force the issue. Pick your spots.

  Thomas Henderson

  Player, Issues, Cards

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• I have the possibility to watch Messi in training each morning, and because of what he demonstrates he is the best player in the world

  Thierry Henry

  Morning, Player, Training

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• If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Athlete, Player, Games

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude.

  Rafael Nadal

  Children, Attitude, Player

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.

  John Calipari

  Player, Thinking, Trying

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's the same in dharma practice.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Player, Practice, Dharma

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• Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League.

  Randy Moss

  Football, Player, League

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• I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.

  Julius Peppers

  Player, Thinking, Want

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• You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.

  Jason Spezza

  Writing, Player, People

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