Player Quotes - Page 28

• With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, Kings, Years

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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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• Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Mean, Years, League

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• Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

  Thierry Henry

  Baseball, Football, Team

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• My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.

  Tony Iommi

  Shadow, Band, Jazz

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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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• I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

  Constance Jablonski

  Tennis, Wanted, Tennis Player

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• A happy player is a good player, I think.

  Curtis Joseph

  Thinking

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• If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

  Keith Jarrett

  Jazz, Ifs

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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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• One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

  Lydia Ko

  Country, Goal, People

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• I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Voice, Lakes, Sound

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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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• Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

  Richard Krajicek

  Guy, Borg, Grass

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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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• 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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• I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Sports, Hockey, Years

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• I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Hockey, Thinking, Just Being

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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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• Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  Wayne Rooney

  Games, Training, Want

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• Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.

  Fred Seibert

  Real, Rocks, Castles

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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