Player Quotes - Page 17

• History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.

  Irving Azoff

  Ebay, People, Google

  "Business Matters: Irving Azoff On Battling Business Models; Spotify; YouTube + RightsFlow" by Glenn Peoples, www.billboard.com. February 10, 2011.

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• As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

  Jonathan Ames

  Children, Athlete, Tennis

  "'Bored to Death' creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Robert Lloyd, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 14, 2011.

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• I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

  Derek Bailey

  Thinking, Made, Fine

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• I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Dream, Games, Nfl

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• I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

  Dusty Baker

  Baseball, Consistency, Levels

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• I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

  Roy Clarke

  Football, Fun, Games

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• I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.

  Lee DeWyze

  Guitar, Unorthodox, Firsts

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• I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

  Tim DeKay

  Baseball, School, College

  "‘White Collar’ Star Tim DeKay On Directing, Playing Catch In Yankee Stadium And More". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2012.

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• I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.

  Arne Duncan

  Athlete, Fighting, Worry

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• My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.

  Doug Davidson

  Tennis, Roger, My Favorite

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• In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Long, Tennis, Problem

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• 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.

  Luis Figo

  Football, Fighting, Wells

  "The first galactico" by John Carlin, January 18, 2004.

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• 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.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Hangover, Games, Mind

  "Eriksson goes against his basic instincts" by Kevin McCarra, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.

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• No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.

  Jason Giambi

  People, Want, Matter

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• 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.

  Johnny Giles

  Creative, Lambs, Lions

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• 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.

  Mike Gordon

  Grateful, Typical, Bass

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• My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

  Mose Allison

  Kings, Jazz, Classic

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• 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.

  Bradley Cooper

  Business, Men, Ladies Man

  "Bradley Cooper is Peoples Sexiest Man Alive and Says He's 'Single'" by Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 16, 2011.

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• 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.

  Alain Vigneault

  Attitude, Real, Hockey

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• 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.

  David Caruso

  Guy, Comfort, Actors

  "AGENT ORANGE: David Caruso on SESSION 9". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 23, 2001.

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• 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.

  David Cone

  Baseball, Thinking, Missing

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• 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.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Kids, Tape

  "The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review" by Jarvis Cocker, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jerry Cantrell

  Trying, Needs, Bigs

  "1996 Guitar World Interview: Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains Discusses Songwriting and Band's New Self-Titled Album". Interview with Jeff Gilbert and Andy Aledort, www.guitarworld.com. November 15, 2011.

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• In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

  Georgie Fame

  Rugby, Youth

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• Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

  Jonny Greenwood

  College, Sight, Cds

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