Player Quotes - Page 18

• 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.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Team, Mind, Ordinary

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

  Roger Goodell

  Winning, Important, Fans

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• I talk to players all the time.

  Roger Goodell

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• I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  Hockey, Hockey Player

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• I'm the quiet bass player.

  Colin Hanks

  Bass, Bass Players, Quiet

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

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• The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Football, Team, Winning

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• The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.

  Paul Ince

  Best Players

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• To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

  Scott Ian

  Guitar, Feel Good, Sound

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• I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Song, Jobs, Mean

  "My Steve Jobs story…". shumbodynamedharry.tumblr.com.

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• The people I still talk to are some of the old Galaxy players all over the place. That's a bond that's pretty special.

  Cobi Jones

  People, Special, Galaxy

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• I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Running, Fate, Hands

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• I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

  Ferguson Jenkins

  Baseball, Museums, Views

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• You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

  Nick Johnson

  Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Looks

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• I'm not a great piano player.

  Norah Jones

  Piano

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• Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.

  Al Kaline

  Running, Athlete, Numbers

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• I'll never be the best guitar player.

  Chad Kroeger

  Guitar, Being The Best, Guitar Player

  "Nickelback's Chad Kroeger has high expectations". Associated Press Interview, chronicle.augusta.com. October 4, 2005.

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• You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

  Pele

  Beach, Hard Work, People

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• The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.

  Frank Zappa

  Records, Dense, Devices

  Song: A Little Green Rosetta

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• I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

  Chuck Lorre

  Guitar, Television, Fallen

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• There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Team, Heart

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Winning, People

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• Everyone knows the game is about the players.

  Mike Quade

  Games, Knows

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• In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.

  Pete Rozelle

  Clubs, Awful, Facts

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• Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.

  Pete Rozelle

  Looks, Owners, Shakes

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• I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

  Wayne Rooney

  Mirrors, Games, Age

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