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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 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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• 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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• 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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• I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

  Steve Largent

  Football, Jobs, Differences

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• Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Mother, Winning

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• Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Winning, Beats

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• I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.

  Al Davis

  Football, Passion, Greatness

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• My agent says that I'm a "repeat business guy." If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

  Dean Cain

  Attitude, Team, Guy

  "Dean Cain on his prolific TV movie career, including tonight's 'A Mile in His Shoes'". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, ew.com. September 25, 2011.

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• In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Real, Alcohol

  "Smoking Barthez ignores Ferguson" by David Barnes, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2001.

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• You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Winning, Eight

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• Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

  Chris Evert

  Self, Giving, Tennis

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• I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

  Mike Piazza

  Baseball, Careers, Organization

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

  Johnny Bench

  Mean, Looks, Eras

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• Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

  Pele

  Soccer, Father, Eight

  "Talk Asia" with Anna Coren, edition.cnn.com. April 27, 2011.

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• The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

  Bill Dixon

  Magic, Musician, Want

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• My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

  Tony Dorsett

  Sports, Football, Brother

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• I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

  Rita Coolidge

  Different, Information, Wealth

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

  Ron Jaworski

  Sports, Challenges, Pieces

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• It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

  Ivan Lendl

  World, Woods, Way

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• Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

  David Mamet

  Gambling, Self, Bears

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Running, Risk, Trying

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