Player Quotes - Page 27

• I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

  David Baldacci

  Wicked, Ping Pong, Ping

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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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• The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.

  Drew Brees

  Athlete, New Orleans, Years

  "Nfl Draft Is Today, Drew Brees Steals Its Thunder With 'madden Nfl 11' Cover" by Brian Warmoth, www.mtv.com. April 22, 2010.

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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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• As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.

  Roy Clarke

  Pride, Makeup, Thinking

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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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• I'd like to be a piano player.

  Chris Daughtry

  Piano

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• I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Texas, Guy, Lucky

  "'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott: A Larger-than-life Guitarist And Human Being" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2004.

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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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• 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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• There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Knights, Odds, Giving

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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• 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.

  Craig Johnston

  Football, Team, Kids

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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'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.

  David Cassidy

  Team, Musician, Band

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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'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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• 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.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Thinking, Want, Singers

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• 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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• Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

  Retief Goosen

  Brother, Dad, Golf

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• I talk to players all the time.

  Roger Goodell

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• What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.

  Ryan Giggs

  Fighting, Kicking, Rooms

  "Ryan Giggs: Nice guy finishes first" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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