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It's humbling and an honor to be named AP Player of the Year, to be mentioned in the same realm as a lot of great players, a lot of hall of famers.
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.
I want to be my own player. I want to be Julius Peppers. I don't want to be the next Lawrence Taylor. I don't want to have to live with his legacy.
I'm definitely looking to put together a full season. I know what I'm capable of doing. I want to be the kind of player my teammates can depend on.
The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.
You walk in our locker room and you see Pau Gasol, you see Andrew Bynum, you see Kobe, you see Ron Artest ... we have so many players that can play.
If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.
This is the best club in the world with the best fans, so I'm very proud to be a Liverpool player for the next four years and hopefully even longer.
Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.
You have to be disciplined because if you lose your discipline and lose your shape, we're playing against better players, so they'll take advantage.
Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.
Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.
Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.
Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.
The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.
I don't think your focus as a hockey player or athlete can be anywhere else but how you want to impact the team on the ice or on the field or court.
I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.
Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her.
I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.
I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.
I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.
He (Thomas) is our best post-up player and now we will have to be more active in the paint. I think we can hold it down, but we will miss him though.
I was always the 'boring' type. I was into the stats and spending hours and hours and hours studying them. I was always more a manager than a player.
Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.
I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.
We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.
I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.
A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We.
Thierry Henry my grandchildren, hopefully my great grandchildren gonna have to hear about him because is super, absolutely super, top guy, top player
There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.
If you lose, it's the coach's fault and if you win, the players are credible, they are indispensable, so whatever happens it's going to be the coach.
People call me all the time and say, “Man, your players aren't signed yet.” Well, it doesn't really matter what time dinner is when you're the steak.
The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.
A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.
I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.
One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a player, that means more than you could understand.
I can't fault my players. We created a lot of chances but we missed out on a victory because of the woodwork and goalkeeper Bonano, who did very well.
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.
Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.
I would loved to have played with Scholes. He plays the game the way it should be played and at his peak he was the best midfield player in the world.
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
You need to look to make a cohesive calendar that makes sense and helps elongate the careers of your players as opposed to shorten them inadvertently.