Player Quotes - Page 40

• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  Dakota Fanning

  Grandparent, Tennis, Athletic

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• I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

  Chuck Connors

  Basketball, Defense, World

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• Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.

  Dave McPherson

  Sports, Accomplishment, Tennis

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• Martina Navratilova said in the early '90s that Seles would inspire the players of the future to also use two-handed forehands. That didn't happen, but she is responsible for the all-out aggression with which most of the top players play. All the low trajectory shots hit with just moderate amounts of spin and traveling into the corners like heat-seeking missiles? You guessed it, Monica's to blame.

  Dave McPherson

  Two, Inspire, Use

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• As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

  Hope Solo

  Athlete, People, Matter

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• I have a problem with players who don't take the loss personally. At a professional level you should - it's our job, it's our livelihood, it's who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.

  Hope Solo

  Jobs, Taken, Loss

  "Interview with Hope Solo, USWNT and St Louis Athletica Goalkeeper". Interview with L.E. Eisenmenger, sportslens.com. May 7, 2009.

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• I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

  Ryan Guzman

  Baseball, Dream, College

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

  Pete Rose

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Mvp, Challenges

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• Westbrook: 10 triple-doubles and carrying that team, injury-prone, into the playoffs. LeBron being the best player in the world. But I think right now I would go with James Harden because of what he's done. He's stepped up his game defensively. He's not a great defender but he's competing on the defensive end.

  Mark Jackson

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

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• You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.

  Dwight Howard

  Basketball, Team, Believe

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• Fortunately for me, its my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we dont have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.

  Landon Donovan

  Soccer, Country, Thinking

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• I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

  Tim Howard

  Soccer, Levels, Wanted

  "Serby’s Sunday Q&A with…Tim Howard". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. June 7, 2014.

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• I havent seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

  John McEnroe

  Brother, New York, Kids

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• I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.

  Novak Djokovic

  Winning, Tennis, Courageous

  "Stanislas Wawrinka shrugs off personal problems to win French Open" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. June 07, 2015.

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• Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Way, Looks, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

  Mikhail Tal

  Chess, Matter, Fortune

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• Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.

  Tim Harford

  Real, Book, Games

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• Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

  Zakk Wylde

  Guitar, Doubt, Vans

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• I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

  Paul McCartney

  Vans, Van Halen

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• He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!

  Pat Riley

  West, Hell, Clutch

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• I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.

  Khalil Greene

  Optimistic, Impact, Together

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• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  Gareth Bale

  Football, Dream, Kids

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• Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin injection. I feared that if the Cubs found out and I slumped badly, they would attribute it to the diabetes and send me back to the minors - or worse, release me.

  Ron Santo

  Morning, Games, Towns

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• Dhoni backs players as well. People like (Suresh) Raina, (Ravindra) Jadeja, and Rohit Sharma have developed under him as players and has some terrific qualities as a leader.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Dhoni, People, Leader

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