Player Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done.

  John Scarne

  Thinking, Gambling, Advice

  John Scarne (1961). “Complete guide to gambling”

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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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• Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Independent, Thinking

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• I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.

  Rafael Nadal

  Dog, Tennis, Upset

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• If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average player

  Dennis Rodman

  Average, Late, Ifs

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• To be a great player, you have to
  affect the entire unit.

  Nick Saban

  Units

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• It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.

  Slash

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• I don't work this hard just to be the best player. I do it to win.

  Holly McPeak

  Winning, Being The Best, Hard

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• EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.

  Claudio Reyna

  Relationship, Sports, Strong

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• The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

  Pat Metheny

  Musician, Best Players, Listeners

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• There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

  Pete Hamill

  Football, Country, Texas

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• It’s not difficult to coach to just get 10 players right on your 18-yard box.

  Brendan

  Yards, Boxes, Difficult

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• I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.

  Hidetoshi Nakata

  Team, Europe, Firsts

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• So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Country, Responsibility, Europe

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• Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted.

  Paul Thurrott

  Hard Times, Mp3, Apples

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• With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, Kings, Years

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• Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

  Sparky Anderson

  Cutting, Justice, Caught

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• I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

  Tom Verlaine

  Guitar, Sound, Records

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• Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.

  Mikhail Chigorin

  Thinking, Trying, Textbooks

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• I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

  Judit Polgar

  Women, Careers, Chess

  "The Beauty of Chess Tricks" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

  Ian Poulter

  Golf, Lost, Said

  "No Limits". Book by Ian Poulter, October 2014.

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• I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

  Guy Clark

  Guitar, Years, Talent

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• I was a guitar player first off.

  Boz Scaggs

  Guitar, Firsts, Guitar Player

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• But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

  Charlie Hunter

  Guitar, Needs, Stuff

  "Charlie Hunter: Living The Music". Interview with Paul Olson, www.allaboutjazz.com. September 26, 2005.

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