Player Quotes - Page 25

• Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

  Martin O'Neill

  Soccer, Football, Goal

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• A holocaust of an afternoon.

  Carlton Palmer

  Soccer, Football, Holocaust

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• There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.

  Ron Atkinson

  Soccer, Football, Age

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• A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Ordinary

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• Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Eagles

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• Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Simple

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• Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

  Gianfranco Zola

  Soccer, Football, Stupid

  "Tuesday's football transfer rumours: Heskey to Aston Villa?" by Les Roopanarine, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2008.

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• Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had.

  Tony Cascarino

  Soccer, Football, Yards

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• If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

  Tommy Docherty

  Soccer, Football, Division

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• His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Football, Feet

  Eduardo Galeano (1998). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.194, Verso

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• Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Fashion

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• I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

  Ruud Gullit

  Determination, Eye, Winning

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• If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

  Ruud Gullit

  Should Have, Fields, Insulted

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• I am very excited to be included in the very first college baseball Hall of Fame class. For me to be honored with these coaches and players that I have grown to admire and respect is very special. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Lubbock.

  Skip Bertman

  Baseball, College, Class

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• Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

  John Green

  Winning, Games, Glory

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• I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Thinking, People

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• I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

  Fred Couples

  Hair, Average, Years

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• If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

  Gordie Howe

  Hockey, Want, Has Beens

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• There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

  Gordie Howe

  Games, Wish, Different

  Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

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• English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

  Kevin Keegan

  Football, Way, Dominant

  "The Saturday interview: Kevin Keegan" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

  Steve Largent

  Football, Jobs, Differences

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• Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Growing Up, Hockey

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• Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Support, Feel Good

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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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