I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

To be a great player and a great scorer, you have to find ways to get yourself open and get shots off. It's a dog fight.

Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.

You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player,” Nita said, “I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue.

The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard.

I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

Beckham is a nice man and I'm sure he will reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more.

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.

Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it'll change.

He's a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'

I'm a control freak except that I'm a good team player. So I obsess about the details of things but I also trust the team.

You know as a player that you won’t have many opportunities to play in World Cups - so you have to take them when you can.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

The individual attention and care that I personally experienced and witnessed given to other players totally blew me away.

I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.

Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.

You couldn't put a value on him, he's on another planet. For me, Lionel Messi is undoubtedly the No.1 player in the world.

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

Always being an underdog, always being the player or the person nobody really knew, that always kept a chip on my shoulder.

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

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.

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