Player Quotes - Page 7

• Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

  Joe Paterno

  Leadership, Sports, Games

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• Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

  Earl Weaver

  Leadership, Sports, Honesty

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• Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Needs

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• If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Team

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• At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.

  Orianthi

  School, Hard Times, Guitar

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• Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

  David Mamet

  Gambling, Self, Bears

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Independent, Thinking

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• Ernie Banks was a great great player and when he no longer could play, he became a great ambassador for the game. He represented the game with the highest of class and dignity. Everybody loved Ernie Banks. He enjoyed baseball, life and people. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. We have truly lost a baseball giant.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Prayer, Games

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• Player safety is definitely something that has to be at the top of the list. I think that the union and the NFL are doing all they can to make sure they're protecting the players the best they can.

  Donte Stallworth

  Thinking, Safety

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• Eden Hazard is a great player. He has
  magic

  Frank Lampard

  Eden, Magic, Hazards

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• A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

  John Wooden

  People, Should, Function

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• 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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• The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

  Pat Metheny

  Musician, Best Players, Listeners

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

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Guitar, Hendrix

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• It’s not difficult to coach to just get 10 players right on your 18-yard box.

  Brendan

  Yards, Boxes, Difficult

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• Chris Washburne is a superior hard bop player.

  Scott Yanow

  Bops, Hard, Superiors

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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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• I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them.

  Marcel Dionne

  Country, League, Canada

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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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• 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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• 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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