Player Quotes - Page 38

• Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Tennis, Healthy, Energy

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• There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running, Sweet, Drinking

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.233

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• Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sports, Art, Character

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• It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room.

  Barry Switzer

  Football, Mistake, Team

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• As the game gets bigger, it get bigger for the players.

  Michael Strahan

  Games, Nfl, Bigger

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• I guess the way I describe it is when basketball players talk about being in the zone and they feel like they can't miss. That's the way a running back feels when the game is in slow-motion. It feels like every cut is right, every run is going to be at least 10 yards. You see what the defense is doing. You know what they're trying to do to you. It's awesome.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Basketball, Running, Cutting

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• People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

  Reggie White

  Football, Heart, Nfl

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• I'm not going to lie and say that I'm good at Madden. There are some good players out there. There are some good players on the team. I get skunked all of the time.

  Calvin Johnson

  Lying, Team, Nfl

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• I've already developed trust in my teammates -as a player and as a person.

  Philip Rivers

  Nfl, Teammate, Persons

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• He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full."

  Jerry Glanville

  Nfl, Two, League

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• Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.

  Darrelle Revis

  Nfl, People, Get Better

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• I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.

  Elton John

  Past, Thinking, Atmosphere

  "A Q&A With Elton John". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 16, 2004.

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• We must break out of this mindset in Australia that we are a small nation on the other side of the world from the main, great Western nations. Australia is the twelfth largest economy in the world. We are a not insignificant player in commerce, in geopolitics and we must be in culture as well and we are.

  George Brandis

  Australia, Culture, Break Out

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

  Daryl Morey

  Basketball, Sports, Team

  "Hang Up and Listen: The 138! Edition". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.

  Ray Lewis

  Games, Outcomes, Refs

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.

  Salman Rushdie

  Games, Choices, Narrative

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books.

  Chris Paul

  Book, Trying, Different

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Games, Trying

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• The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Law, Two

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• It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Wings, Perspective

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• we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

  Gene Tierney

  Jobs, Brass Bands, Guitar

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Son, Greatness, Two

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• Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.

  Matt Sanchez

  Party, Boards, Video

  "AP Reports on the Wrong Massacre" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 6, 2007.

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• Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  Daughter, Drummer

  "Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off and on Broadway". Music, Documentary, 2006.

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• To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.

  Lynda Obst

  Powerful, Distance, Office

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