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“I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Age Player Generations Tennis This Generation Tennis Player Best Ever

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.”

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Author:Samantha Stosur

“Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.”

Way Trying Player Equal Right Thing Tennis Australia Prize Slam Prize Money

Author:Samantha Stosur

“That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.”

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Author:Samantha Stosur

“You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.”

People Knows Play Past Bits Watches Player Bigger Males Relate Watch Me

Author:Samantha Stosur

“As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.”

Used Player Piano Mellow Used To Love Instrumentalists

Author:Boz Scaggs

“I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.”

Kids Player Volleyball Volleyball Player

Author:Danny Strong

“I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.”

Thinking Firsts Real Kids Player Generations Heard Groups Jazz Affection Silver My Generation Back When

Author:David Sanborn

“I was a piano player before I was a poet.”

Player Poet Piano

Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.”

Knows Home Player

Author:Gordon Strachan

“Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.”

People Ifs Want Needs Believe Player Good People Believe In Me

Author:Gordon Strachan

“I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs Feels Trying Matter Able Guy Player Response Strive Coaches Know It All

Author:Gordon Strachan

“I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.”

Trying Focus Player Decided Guitar Rhythm Neglected Guitar Player

Author:Hal Sparks

“A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.”

Said Important Games Player Fronts Kings Advantage Opposition Squares Adverse

Book:The American Chess-player's Handbook: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognised Openings : Exemplified by Appropriate Games Actually Played by Morphy, Harrwitz, Anderssen, Staunton, Paulsen, Montgomery, Meek and Others : from the Work of Staunton

Source: The American Chess-player's Handbook: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognised Openings : Exemplified by Appropriate Games Actually Played by Morphy, Harrwitz, Anderssen, Staunton, Paulsen, Montgomery, Meek and Others : from the Work of Staunton

“Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.”

Different Purpose Party Pieces Player Color Eight Superiors Distinction Officers Minors Pawns Different Colors

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess

“In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.”

Ifs Firsts May Moving Player Kings Demand Moved Touched Opposing

Author:Howard Staunton

“I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.”

World Want States Sports Natural Levels United United States Player Heard Highest Baseball Baseball Player

Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.”

Ifs Mind Self Play Sports Player Health Buddhism Participation Sense Of Self Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.”

Next Felt Hours Player Periods Bed Tired Recovery Session

Author:Jonah Lomu

“There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.”

Author:Marat Safin

“My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.”

Said Mother Chance Player Football Tennis Football Player Tennis Player

Author:Marat Safin

“For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.”

Ifs World Player Example Performing Sat

Author:Payne Stewart

“Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.”

Want Needs Important Asks Player

Author:Sheryl Swoopes

“I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.”

Way Art Wanted Film Artist Games Sports Player Sells Coaches Nfl The Love Of The Game

Author:Steve Sabol

“I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.”

People Stills Player Return

Author:Tabitha Soren

“There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.”

Feelings Seems Player Personality Instance Tennis Tennis Player

Author:Daley Thompson

“In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.”

Knows Two Games Player Week Football Discipline Clubs Staff Preparing

Author:Graham Taylor

“In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.”

Different Games Player Football Seasons International Clubs Coaching Saturday Recovering

Author:Graham Taylor

“Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.”

Play Night Sides Player Fans Organization Great Things Every Night Your Side Great Fans

Author:Jim Thome

“Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.”

Helping Kids Young Player Fine Late Appeals Pool Senior Tsunami

Author:John Terry

“I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.”

People Looks Book Player Car Design Late Phones Comic These Days Etc Comic Book Gadgets

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I think I'm a really tough player.”

Thinking Player Tough

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“I'm the type of player I am.”

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

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

Player Flight Tennis Expensive Hotel Tennis Player

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.”

Ifs Thinking Hands Individual Player Discipline Structure Add Hand In Hand

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.”

Ifs Said Play Night Levels Player Who You Are Every Night

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.”

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Author:Muddy Waters

“I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I'd like them to be honest.”

Thinking Way Turns Asks Answers Player Honest Boring Being Honest Journalist Interviews Say Anything

Author:Shane Warne

“I'm a minor player in my own life story.”

Stories My Own Player Minors My Own Life Life Story

Author:Tony Wilson

“My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.”

Play School Sports Gone Player Majors High School Coaches League Contracts Rays Major League

Author:Robin Yount

“You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.”

Knows Years Helping Sports Numbers Player Coaches Managers Dozen

Author:Robin Yount

“I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.”

Sports Player Spring

Author:Steve Yzerman

“I was never promised any special treatment or consideration for fingering star players. I was never coerced to provide information against anyone. All that I was ever told to was to tell the truth to the best of my ability. And that is what I have done.”

Done Stars Ability Player Special Information Consideration Telling The Truth Treatment Special Treatment

Author:Jim Lehrer

“I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play.”

“People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.”

People Thinking Knows Country Records Player Jazz Studios Bob Blonde Nashville Jazz Records

Author:Elvis Costello

“I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.”

Feels Player Listening

Author:Rebecca Lobo

“I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.”

Thinking World Careers Player Stage

Author:Andy Murray

“If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.”

Ifs Want Needs Moving Teach Player Volley

Author:Andy Murray

“It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.”

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Author:Johnny Manziel

“Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.”

Actors Player Football Football Player

Author:Ryan McPartlin