Best Players Quotes - Page 8

• ...I do not say, Don't play games or cricket and so forth. By all means play and enjoy them, giving thanks to Jesus for them. Only take care that games do not become an idol to you as they did to me. What good will it do to anybody in the next world to have been the best player that ever has been? And then think of the difference between that and winning souls for Jesus.

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Mean, Winning

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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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• 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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• 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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• Lord Bendtner is the best player of all times

  Barack Obama

  Player, Lord, All Time

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• I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

  Tony Dungy

  School, Winning, Player

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• Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years.

  Ryan Giggs

  Player, Years, Messi

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• Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.

  Bryce Harper

  Baseball, Player, Trout

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• Every defensive end who is going to be picked in the first round is going to be a good pick for whoever they're chosen by, but if I had to tell you what sets me apart, that would be my desire and determination to get better. I know what I need to work on, I know my weaknesses, but I have that work ethic to improve every day. I have that want to be the best player at my position, and I have the belief in myself that one day that will come true.

  Justin Tuck

  Determination, Player, Work Ethic

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 29, 2005.

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• If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world

  Diego Maradona

  Player, Goal, Champion

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• When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

  George Karl

  Basketball, Cutting, Player

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• 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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• 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 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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• The best player I ever played against was Paolo Maldini. We [Arsenal] played against Milan in the European Supercup [in 1995]. Maldini marked me and I didn't even get a kick of the ball all game. He was just unbelievable.

  Paul Merson

  Player, Games, Balls

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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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• Brandon Rush is not just one of the best freshmen in the league, he's one of the best players.

  Kelvin Sampson

  Player, League, Freshman

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• It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.

  Darren McCarty

  Team, Player, Years

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• Gareth Bale has been levitated to the status of one of the best players in the world.

  Perry Groves

  Player, World, Has Beens

  "3pm's football funnies: Man United legend Knighton STILL poetry in motion, Arsenal's bad trip and Rooney logo no-go" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. August 18, 2013.

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• I have played against (Michel) Platini, (Diego) Maradona, (Johan) Cruyff and played with George Best — a lot of big names, but none of them has been able to do what Messi does. Two years ago I said that the best player I played against was Maradona and the best player I have played with was Bestie. But I can now say I have never seen a player as good as Messi. He’s in a league of his own.

  John Terry

  Player, Years, Names

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• It's unbelievable to have come through a field of 64 of the best players I've seen for a long time.

  Phil Taylor

  Player, Long, Fields

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• Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• For me, Lionel Messi is quite clearly the best player ever. It’s a pleasure to put myself against him and when I finish my career it’s something I can look back on and know I’ve tested myself against the very best.

  John Terry

  Player, Careers, Messi

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• He who gets the best players usually wins.

  Bobby Bowden

  Sports, Winning, Player

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• When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.

  Bob Toski

  Successful, Player, Three

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