Player Quotes - Page 31

• Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

  Miles Davis

  Men, Ego, Looks

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• No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.

  Helen Wills

  New York, August, Climate

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• This team [England] has some of the best players in England

  David Beckham

  Team, England, Best Players

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• If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!

  Glenn Hoddle

  Feelings, Tin, May

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• I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I felt. I didn't mince words, so to speak. If I felt bad, I let you know that I felt bad. If I felt you were playing sorry, I told you. If I was playing sorry, I told myself that. I came from an era when losing really hurt. I didn't see anything good about it.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Hurt, Sorry, Emotional

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• Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager is a success. The players make the manager. It's never the other way. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year. A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules. Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another. You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Running, Spring

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• I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.

  Ricky Ponting

  Couple, Talking, Years

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• Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

  Arsene Wenger

  England, Blame, Enough

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• As someone who's very competitive, I'm someone who abhors losing more than I enjoy winning. In that regard, it hasn't been a great two months, but I think our players' attitude remains pretty resolute.

  Skip Prosser

  Attitude, Thinking, Winning

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• There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

  Allan Border

  One Day, Generations, May

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• The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.

  Tim Henman

  Responsibility, Needs, Form

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• I think every coach has to adapt to what they have, because they're what you get. You can't just go out to the player tree and pick all the great ones. That doesn't happen. You get a Barry Sanders every now and then. You get a Billy Sims every once in a while. And when you have it, you adapt to their strengths. Whoever comes in here and whoever has this job needs to adapt and will do that.

  Matt Millen

  Jobs, Thinking, Tree

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• I was never happy that my injuries cut my career short and ultimately forced my decision to step away from tennis. I have enjoyed my time away from the court, a period that has allowed me to experience a different side of life. However, I miss the game and the challenge of competing at the highest level of tennis, and I want to gauge whether I can stay healthy and compete against today's top players.

  Martina Hingis

  Cutting, Games, Careers

  "Hingis plans comeback to top tennis three years after retiring" by Steve Bierley, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2005.

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• You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.

  Rafael Benitez

  Trying, Done, Clubs

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• I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.

  Fergie

  Heart, Accepted, Bits

  "Fergie: Roon's Rages mean he's got heart" by David McDonnell, www.mirror.co.uk. September 10, 2005.

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• For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You-Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.

  Jermain Defoe

  Football, Games, Watches

  "Tottenham's Jermain Defoe eyes 'great feeling' of being just 19th man to score 20 goals for England" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2013.

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• You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

  Jermain Defoe

  Real, Team, Want

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• One thing I think you have to do here at Wisconsin is maximize your personnel. From the standpoint of getting our best players out there, you've really got to make sure you're not burying anybody at a position.

  Bret Bielema

  Thinking, Wisconsin, Burying

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• If the players go Christmas shopping, it's not ideal preparation. It may sound silly, but having to fight off the crowds in a busy shopping centre or having people visit can be demanding.

  Steve Coppell

  Silly, Fighting, Shopping

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• I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.

  Chris Davis

  Grandfather, Credit, Fields

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• What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Emotional, Brain

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• To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Football, Believe, Men

  Speech, Oyster Bay, N.Y., Oct. 1897

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• I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Baseball, Ambition, Long

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• The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

  Gary Player

  Practice, Lessons, Honest

  Gary Player (1962). “Golf Secrets”

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• Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Needs, Remember

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