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At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.
A championship team wins because it already has established players, while a talented team is just beginning to establish players.
I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.
There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.
As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.
Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.
You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.
It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.
I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and a joy for the game.
Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.
I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.
Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had to play another in his place.
What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.
I am always giving advice to young players about how things are, how important it is to work hard every day to reach the glory days.
When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone?
Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.
The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.
I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.
I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.
Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.
When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.
I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
Liverpool players must play like a lion, give his all. There must be determination, commitment and resolve to be a Liverpool player.
I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.
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.
I was the No. 1 player coming into college and I want to be the No. 1 player heading into the NFL. That's definitely one of my goals.
Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.
That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.
There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.
I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.
A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.
Jack Del Rio and myself are very similar except he's really good looking and was a great player. Other than that, we're very similar.
Iran has always had a good relationship with Europe. The Middle East is Europe's neighbor, and we are a strong player in this region.
The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.
We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.