Player Quotes - Page 33

• I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Football, Blood, Years

  "Richard Quest interviewed the owner of Harrods department store and Egyptian business tycoon Mohammed al-Fayed on his life, his health and his work". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 12, 2004.

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• The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

  Jay Leno

  Football, Night, College

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• In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

  Jay Leno

  Football, Team, Nfl

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• I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Winning, Hands

  "Yes, Great Players Can Make Good Coaches". Interview with Ross Atkin, www.csmonitor.com. January 29, 1998.

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• When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

  Larry Bird

  Hard Work, Get Better, Teammate

  "A Bird on the Bench is Worth 12,252 In Roberts Stadium Seats". The Evansville Courier, October 18, 1997.

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• I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.

  Tommy Lasorda

  League, One Day, Bigs

  Tommy Lasorda, David Fisher (1986). “The Artful Dodger”, Avon Books

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• It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Two, League

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• If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.

  Red Auerbach

  Want, Coaches, Ifs

  Interview with Ken Shouler, www.espn.com. October 28, 2006.

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• I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.

  Red Auerbach

  Personality, Teammate, Want

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• It's not just enough to change the players. We've gotta change the game.

  Barack Obama

  Games, Vision, Enough

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• When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.

  Miriam Makeba

  Brother, White, America

  "Miriam Makeba: Mama Africa Goes Home". J. Poet, Crawdaddy! Magazine, February 11, 2009.

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• There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Analogies, Chess, Machines

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.838, Xist Publishing

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• From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Character, Golf

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• On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what I'm going to do after the show. They can't get it into their heads: "How can he be talking to Madeleine Albright one minute and then somebody half his age...." They're just jealous. But I never made any bones about it. I am a player. Always have been.

  Bill Maher

  Jealous, Hard Times, Talking

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• Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Stars, Games, Appreciate

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• To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Creativity, Artist

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Moving

  The two commands for his computer program,Tit forTat, designed at the University ofToronto. It outperformed all other programs at an international computer tournament in1979, and it continues to excel in tournaments.The programinitiates reciprocal cooperation yet responds in kind to provocation.

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• The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Games, Outcomes, May

  "Game Theory as a Theory of Conflict Resolution" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 4), 1974.

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• I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk.

  Steve Young

  Real, Risk, Pockets

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• Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.

  Emmitt Smith

  Organization, Nfl, Speak

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• Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Past, Years, Zidane

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• Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Football, Unique, Zidane

  Beckenbauer: Zidane es incomparable, www.emol.com. 2003.

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• Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years ... France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Past, Years, Zidane

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• I am and will always be just simply a basball player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Stones, Tombs

  Jose Canseco @JoseCanseco, twitter.com. December 12, 2010.

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• I think you can learn lots of skills playing football. Team building is one. You also learn how to solve problems within your team. Sometimes you find yourself playing with players that you don't necessarily like, but you have to put your differences aside for the good of the team. It gives you skills that you may not appreciate at the time.

  Hope Powell

  Football, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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