In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.
Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.
No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.
I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.
There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.
And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.
I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.
I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.
I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.
I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.
I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.
You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.
First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.
In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.
Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.
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