Player Quotes - Page 5

• Football players win football games.

  Chuck Knox

  Football, Stupid, Winning

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• Joe: We can't just walk out on her without saying goodbye. Jerry: What? Since when? You usually walk out and leave 'em with nothing but a kick in the teeth. Joe: That's when I was a saxophone player. Now I'm a millionaire.

  Tony Curtis

  Goodbye, Justice, Teeth

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• Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

  Sparky Anderson

  Cutting, Justice, Caught

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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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• It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Simple, Trying, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.

  Mikhail Chigorin

  Thinking, Trying, Textbooks

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• I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

  Judit Polgar

  Women, Careers, Chess

  "The Beauty of Chess Tricks" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I address these hopes to all young players. It seems to me that they often begin too early the strict life of a professional, without first completing their chess studies. Deficiencies in education and a lack of certain basic knowledge will tell sooner or later; they will bump their head on the ceiling and will no longer be able to climb up to the stars.

  Sergei Shipov

  Stars, Chess, Able

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• When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.

  Jan Timman

  Age, Chess, Should

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• It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Sacrifice, Way

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• Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

  Ian Poulter

  Golf, Lost, Said

  "No Limits". Book by Ian Poulter, October 2014.

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• Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

  Phil Lesh

  Grateful, Guitar, Different

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• I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

  Guy Clark

  Guitar, Years, Talent

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• I was a guitar player first off.

  Boz Scaggs

  Guitar, Firsts, Guitar Player

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• I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

  Rick Derringer

  Guitar, People, Way

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• There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

  Scott Stapp

  Moving, One Direction, Guitar

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• But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

  Charlie Hunter

  Guitar, Needs, Stuff

  "Charlie Hunter: Living The Music". Interview with Paul Olson, www.allaboutjazz.com. September 26, 2005.

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• My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

  George Benson

  Guitar, Careers, Mind Blowing

  Interview with Edina Patsy, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

  James Iha

  Guitar, Records, Able

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• I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

  Tom Verlaine

  Guitar, Sound, Records

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• In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

  David Amram

  Thinking, Compliments You, Guitar

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• As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.

  Richie Sambora

  Song, Guitar, Listening

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• If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.

  Russell Malone

  Funny, Inspiring, Team

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• With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

  Shane Warne

  Attitude, Ambition, Australia

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• The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

  Peter Shilton

  Memories, Attitude, Media

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