Player Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

  Walter Becker

  People, Rock N Roll, Musician

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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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• 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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• If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

  Helen Wills

  Women, Mean, Tennis

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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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• We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.

  Gale Sayers

  People, Guy, Rays

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• Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

  Joe Montana

  Jobs, Night, Men

  "Interview: Joe Montana blood pressure". www.askmen.com.

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• Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

  Pele

  Football, Baby, Fun

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• You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

  Bjorn Borg

  Winning, Games, Two

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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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• I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, College, Florida

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Tennis Now Interview, bleacherreport.com. November 30, 2010.

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• The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Ranking, Reason

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Tennis Now Interview, bleacherreport.com. November 30, 2010.

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• On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

  Hale Irwin

  Winning, Thinking, Guy

  "Hale Irwin, 66, has 45 years of S.F. history". Interview with Ron Kroichick, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2011.

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• As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

  Emmitt Smith

  Football, Pain, Dancing

  "Q&A: Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the Stars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

  Herschel Walker

  Men, Renaissance, Determined

  Herschel Walker, Gary Brozek, Jerry Mungadze, Charlene Maxfield (2009). “Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I am supposed to set an example to young players.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Example, Young

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• You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.

  Novak Djokovic

  Successful, World, Consistently

  "Novak - I can win the 'golden slam'", edition.cnn.com. February 8, 2012.

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• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time when I'm recording to 2-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

  M. Ward

  Song, Two, Track

  "M. Ward's Metallica phase". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I'm a struggling guitar player.

  Megyn Kelly

  Struggle, Guitar, Guitar Player

  "10 Things About Me: Megyn Kelly" by Erin Clements, www.elle.com. March 27, 2009.

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• It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

  James Iha

  Jobs, Guitar, People

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• My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

  Grace Jones

  Basketball, Mother, Brother

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• I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look.

  Claudio Reyna

  Xbox, Games, Tvs

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• The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

  Saku Koivu

  Hockey, Unique, Thinking

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• I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

  David Baldacci

  Wicked, Ping Pong, Ping

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