Player Quotes - Page 3

• A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

  Jason Kidd

  Motivational, Basketball, Morning

  FaceBook post by Jason Kidd from Dec 01, 2011

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• I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

  Common

  Appreciation, Rapper, Knowing

  Song: The 6th Sense, Album: Like Water For Chocolate, 2000

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• He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Book, Ridiculous

  "FA ask Ferguson to explain referee comments". www.cnn.com. October 5, 2009.

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• Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Teamwork, Inspirational Sports

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• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

  John Wooden

  Life, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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• Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Hurt, Sex

  "L. M. Boyd" by Boyd, "The Sioux City Journal", p. A17, April 20, 1981.

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• Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Paul Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is the one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength, and he is a genuine competitor.

  Thierry Henry

  Team, Doubt, Way

  "Paul Scholes earns plaudits from football's elite". www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.

  Bobby Fischer

  People, Manhattan, Clubs

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. October 16, 2006.

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• Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

  Jim Bouton

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

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• What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

  Bill Bradley

  Inspirational, Sports, Hard Work

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• If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Sports, Block, Games

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• I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

  Russell Westbrook

  Basketball, Mistake, Learning

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• You have to be a winning player just to break even.

  Tom McEvoy

  Winning, Break Even, Break

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• A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

  John Wooden

  People, Should, Function

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• Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

  Bill Parcells

  Giving, Roles, Praise

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• Player safety is definitely something that has to be at the top of the list. I think that the union and the NFL are doing all they can to make sure they're protecting the players the best they can.

  Donte Stallworth

  Thinking, Safety

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• The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Running, Risk, Trying

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• Ernie Banks was a great great player and when he no longer could play, he became a great ambassador for the game. He represented the game with the highest of class and dignity. Everybody loved Ernie Banks. He enjoyed baseball, life and people. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. We have truly lost a baseball giant.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Prayer, Games

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• Eden Hazard is a great player. He has
  magic

  Frank Lampard

  Eden, Magic, Hazards

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• I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.

  Rafael Nadal

  Dog, Tennis, Upset

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• I don't work this hard just to be the best player. I do it to win.

  Holly McPeak

  Winning, Being The Best, Hard

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• A strong player, which has the sufficient critical mass, can withhold pressure better and create a more stable environment that benefits shareholders as well as employees.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Strong, Environmental

  Les Echos interview, www.sec.gov. January 30, 2006.

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• It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.

  Slash

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