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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.
I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.
Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's something everyone wants to be a part of.
I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.
I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.
To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now
I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.
Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.
Kenny Dalglish would be my first choice for Liverpool's best ever player because he was a great player with a lot of qualities.
Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.
The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
It's really up to me to speed up my learning curve as a player so I can contribute in a much bigger way night in and night out.
.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players
Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'
On Sergei Fedorov's breaking three sticks on Dallas players: I don't know if Anna (Kournikova) told him to get tougher or what.
Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever.
Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.
In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.
People are always going to talk down or bad about you. You can't let that stuff determine what kind of player I am going to be.
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
I like to watch good football so I like to watch good players. I like Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta, Xavi and Wayne Rooney.
You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year...unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.
Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion
I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players.
I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.
I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.
I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.
Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication.
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
Messi is God, as a person and even more as a player. I knew him when he was a boy and I’ve watched him grow. He deserves it all.
I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.
Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.
I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.
Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.
You cannot underestimate the body blow for a snooker player of having your cue broken. After all, it's an extension to your arm.
Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.