Player Quotes - Page 5

• I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Black, Asian

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• Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

  Kobe Bryant

  Games, Age, Cash

  "Kobe Right About Ego-and-Greed-Driven AAU Basketball" by Ken Reed, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2015.

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• Lord Bendtner is the best player of all times

  Barack Obama

  Lord, All Time, Best Players

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• Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

  Joseph Furphy

  Art, Stories, Hours

  Joseph Furphy, Frances Devlin-Glass (1991). “The annotated Such is life: such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins”

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• I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Guitar, Hendrix

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• I thought Denver and Seattle was a big game but Houston and Dallas is the kind of game that as players, we want to play in. I haven’t missed playing in the National Football League, but every year there are one or two games that makes me wish I could tee it up in that game one more time.

  Sterling Sharpe

  Football, Two, Years

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• We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.

  Kenny Werner

  Moving, Taken, Essence

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• It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.

  Craig Benzine

  Self, Cds, Broken

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• I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.

  Hidetoshi Nakata

  Team, Europe, Firsts

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• Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted.

  Paul Thurrott

  Hard Times, Mp3, Apples

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• With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, Kings, Years

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

  Ford Frick

  Yelling, Fingers, Pointing

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• I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

  Lynn Swann

  Faith, Sports, Christian

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