Player Quotes - Page 14

• When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Teaching, Differences

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• I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.'

  John Kessel

  Sports, Art, Swings

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• The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Wise, Winning

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• If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.

  Bjorn Borg

  Leadership, Sports, Thinking

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• First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

  Lou Holtz

  Leadership, Sports, Teacher

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• Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

  Joe Paterno

  Leadership, Sports, Games

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• Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

  Earl Weaver

  Leadership, Sports, Honesty

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• Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Needs

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• If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Team

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• At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.

  Orianthi

  School, Hard Times, Guitar

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• For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

  Andy Murray

  Hard Work, Tennis, Important

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• I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing. ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.

  Stan Wawrinka

  Dream, Thinking, Winning

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• But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

  Krist Novoselic

  Guitar, Dimes, Dozen

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  It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

  John Aldridge

  Soccer, Football, Sun

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• I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.

  Patrice Evra

  Soccer, Football, Rip

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• At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Football, Night

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• You were only a goalkeeper.

  Diego Maradona

  Soccer, Football, Goalkeepers

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• They have weaknesses, the same ones which every attack-minded team has. I'm sure that they will concede more than one at El Madrigal

  Juan Roman Riquelme

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

  Samuel Eto'o

  Soccer, Football, Forgive Me

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• David James is a cretin.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Football

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• Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Football, Realising

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• Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

  Shania Twain

  Soccer, Football, People

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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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• How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

  Johnny Giles

  Soccer, Football, Team

  "Gottle Of Geer and Cantankerous Corkman" by Barry Glendenning and Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.

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