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“I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.”

Player Television Guitar Fallen Guitar Player

“There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.”

Thinking Heart Guy Games Differences Player Wonderful Team Baseball Sake Blow Insight Budgets Quarters

Author:Michael Lewis

“I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.”

Feels Wish Felt Sports Player Remarkable Visiting Reception Ballparks

Author:Mark McGwire

“I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.”

People Want Trying Said Play Winning Player Golf Tournaments Rivalry Good Golf Golf Tournaments

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.”

Home Running Practice Player Type Scales

Author:Dave Navarro

“Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.”

Way Hard Fighting Games Easy Player Compliment Disagree

Author:Graham Nelson

“What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.”

Ends Enjoy Decision Pay Attention Careers Player Tracking

Author:Graham Nelson

“Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.”

Ideas Song Behinds Player Rocks Band Glory Concepts Rock And Roll Digging Ragged Cassettes

Author:Krist Novoselic

“No band is special, no player royalty.”

Player Special Band Royalty

Author:Krist Novoselic

“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

Firsts Bigs Eye Father Sound Records Player Listening Grew Band Grew Up Ears Jazz Caught Brown Illinois Tenors Coltrane Brownies

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.”

Ifs Giving Kind Can Do Player Give Me Swings

Author:David Ortiz

“When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.”

Wells School Focus Player Decided Theater Quitting League Scholarship Volleyball Ivy I Quit Ivy League Volleyball Player Ivy League Schools

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.”

Roles Player Team

Author:Keith Olbermann

“I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.”

Thinking Knows World Done Winning Successful Player Championship Snooker

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.”

People Needs Order Records Player Streets Walking Theater Telephones Movie Theater Record Players

Author:Will Oldham

“If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.”

Ifs Important Dream Bigs Kids Easy Goal Player Majors Aim Golf League Setting Goals Major League

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Source: What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

“In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.”

Order Rooms Practice Player Football Gains Weight Meetings Consistently Saturday American Football Lockers Locker Room Weight Room

Author:Junior Seau

“Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.”

Individual Goal Worry Player Team Losing Managers Discouraging Individual Goals

Author:Al Lopez

“The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.”

Kind Rooms Four Player Wall Managers Enjoyed Hotel Me Alone Hotel Rooms Alone Time Four Walls

Author:Al Lopez

“I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.”

Knows Want Hard Games Difficult My Own Situation Player Team Hard Work Personality Customers Analysis Scrum

Author:Alan Lewis

“I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Trying Body Three Language Player Tools My Way Way Of Thinking Body Language

Author:Alan Lewis

“When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.”

People Player Fields Track Olympics Volleyball Track And Field Vaults Volleyball Player Pole Vault

Author:Diana Lopez

“Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.”

Littles Bits Player Little Bit Coaches Buddy Assistants Head Coaches Assistant Coaches

Author:Adam Oates

“I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.”

Knows Want Enough Player Team

Author:Bill Parcells

“Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.”

Player Cold Late Seasons

Author:Bill Parcells

“There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.”

Littles Sides Lines Player Proud Crosses Coaches Ems Temper Both Sides Tantrums Temper Tantrums

Author:Bill Parcells

“I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.”

Home Together Player Mom Inspired My Mom Piano Grants Organs

Author:Billy Preston

“I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.”

Real Values Games Player Football Directors Sells Flight Enjoyed My Time Spurs

Author:David Pleat

“Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.”

Way Helping Home Attention Player Mines Baseball Help Me Baseball Player Grabbing

Author:Dan Quisenberry

“Everyone knows the game is about the players.”

Knows Games Player

Author:Mike Quade

“The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.”

Ifs Years Made Done Grows Sports Player Areas Increase Made It Hockey Hockey Player Playing Hockey

Author:Angela Ruggiero

“I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.”

Thinking Way Stills Different Grows Player Stage Ready Hockey Just Being Hockey Player

Author:Angela Ruggiero

“The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.”

People Shows Together Form Night Five Player Six Theater Tables Dinner Every Night Ensemble Dinner Table

Author:Michael J. Fox

“You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.”

Want Winning Player Clubs

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.”

Firsts Wanted Acting Growing Up Five Growing Player Ambition Musician Nine Hockey Usual Hockey Player

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Struggle Economy Player Planets Industry Right Now Profit Currents Available Consumers Consistently Jury Electronics

Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.”

Knows Firsts Two Might Three Four Player Winner Slam

Author:Patrick Rafter

“In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.”

Facts Player Influence Clubs Awful Owners

Author:Pete Rozelle

“Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.”

Looks Player Fairs Shakes Owners Subservient Commissioners

Author:Pete Rozelle

“As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge as a powerful online player.”

World Believe I Believe Powerful Player Models Standards Fundamentals Customers Digital Online Retail High Standards Digital World

Author:Stuart Rose

“I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.”

Knows Play Age Games Stuff Player Mirrors Appearance Bothered

Author:Wayne Rooney

“Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.”

Ifs Want Sometimes Play Certain Games Player Training Bothered

Author:Wayne Rooney

“As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.”

People Way Kids Player Basketball Paid Entrepreneur Basketball Player Cool People Idolized

Author:Ben Silbermann

“I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.”

Character Careers Player Baseball Blessed Wide Range Baseball Player

Author:Daniel Sunjata

“Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.”

Real Lines Player Rocks Focused Great Things Castles Niche Motion Pictures

Author:Fred Seibert

“People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.”

People Thinking World Years Hard Helping Home Reality Pay Support Player Coaches Tennis Travel The World Away From Home

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Enough Dream Kids Lasts Sports Player Journey Lucky Tennis Bonus

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Play Dream Bigs Careers Struggle Player Stage Battle Tennis Worthwhile Worth It Tournaments Doubted Tennis Player

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.”

Thinking Giving May Littles Done Helping Young Enjoy Player Involved One Day Tennis Giving Back Commentary

Author:Samantha Stosur

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