Player Quotes - Page 32

• What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Practice, Giving

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• I like searching for the collision detection boundaries, finding invincibility glitches, and purposefully doing other stuff that normal players aren't supposed to do. In order words, I'm a bug checker.

  Hidetaka Suehiro

  Order, Stuff, Bugs

  "Beer, Masturbation, And Twin Peaks: A Conversation With Swery65". Interview with Patrick Klepek, kotaku.com. May 1, 2015.

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• Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.

  Charlie Day

  Baseball, Teacher, Regret

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

  Andy Gilbert

  Band, Jazz, Cookers

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• Neymar is undoubtedly the best player in Brazil. He deserves to play in the best team in the world; next to the best player in the world, Messi.He is a very good player with great quality and a great future.I have no doubt. For me, Neymar is a genius.

  Pele

  Team, Doubt, Quality

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• If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.

  William Eckhardt

  Running, Winning, Hands

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• To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Attitude, Needs, Talent

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• My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

  Donald Fagen

  Style, Quirky, Littles

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• You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

  Mike Figgis

  Interesting, Trying, Film

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• Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.

  Frank Scoblete

  Blessed, Better Days

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• If I were a player, I would like to be like Busquets.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Ifs

  "Euro 2012: Spain profile - Sergio Busquets" by Jordi Quixano, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• This is a tremendous honor (winning the 2002 Roberto Clemente Award), to be considered in the same class as Roberto Clemente. He is a hero and role model for all of us who play the game and strive to be as good a player and person as he was.

  Jim Thome

  Hero, Winning, Awards

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• Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Stars, Hero, Ukulele

  "Jake Shimabukuro On His Ukulele Heroes, ‘Rolling In The Deep,’ And His Dream Song To Cover". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

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• There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

  Arrigo Sacchi

  Pride, Black, Dignity

  "Arrigo Sacchi: 'I'm not racist ... but there are too many blacks in youth teams'". www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2015.

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• As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Games, Profound, Balls

  Lacon: or many things in afew words (p. 345)

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• A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.

  Stephen Leacock

  Sports, Men, Games

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• I liked playing with David Eckstein (former Angels shortstop). I'm not talking about players with top skills, I'm sure there were players with way more skill than him, but there were very few people in the league that had the heart like him.

  Bengie Molina

  Heart, Angel, Talking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm a pretty easygoing guy. I'm not hard to get along with. I never had anybody that I had trouble with. On the other team, sometimes you don't like players because of the way they act, but then you get to know them and then they're very good people. But I never disliked anybody.

  Bengie Molina

  Team, People, Guy

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Players will be able to adjust the volume from 1 to 100 in increments of 1. You could play the game 100 times and have an entirely different experience.

  Peter Molyneux

  Games, Different Experiences, Able

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• When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit.

  Shel Silverstein

  Girl, Baseball, Writing

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• Wayne Bennett believes in himself and his players, and he always will.

  Darren Lockyer

  Believe, Wayne

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• I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.

  Benji Marshall

  Rugby League, League, Rugby

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• Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player!

  Dave Liebman

  Guitar, Jazz, Guitar Player

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• Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.

  Nick Farr-Jones

  Appreciation, Sacrifice, Long

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Two, Self

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