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“The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good.”

Feels Country Shows Player Honor Highest Feel Good Have Confidence

Author:Landon Donovan

“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.”

World Years Next Four Player Fans Proud England Clubs Hopefully Four Years Liverpool

Author:Jamie Carragher

“He is such a great player that he has the capabilities to let no one affect his game. (on David Beckham)”

Games Player England Capability Beckham

Author:Steve McClaren

“Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.”

Believe Play Character Used Quality Situation Player Impossible Heard Talent Produce Used To Be Fantastic France Idols Impossible Situations

Author:Michel Patini

“Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player.”

Remember Player Uncles Roulette Russian Roulette

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Fortunately I am a mentally strong person and believe I will learn from the experience and continue to improve as a player and person because of it. (on breaking his leg)”

Believe Persons Strong Player England Legs Strong Person Mentally Strong

Author:Michael Owen

“My Dad was briefly an Everton player and I used to follow them as a boy.”

Used Boys Player Dad England My Dad Everton

Author:Michael Owen

“When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.”

Bigs Player Team Fronts England Occasions

Author:Michael Owen

“...the last player I truly idolize... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona)”

Lasts Numbers Player Worthy Shirts Footballer Bulgaria Maradona Number 10

Author:Hristo Stoichkov

“When I arrived the players were talented, but did not obey the rules... Once they understood what they needed to, they could express themselves.”

Player Needed Understood Germany

Author:Otto Rehhagel

“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.”

Faces Sound Player Guitar Holes Sincerity Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Dana Gould

“I listened to my first comedy album in 6th grade. It was Bill Cosby. My brother and I would play it over and over on a Fisher Price record player. A friend in high school also introduced me to Richard Pryor. I wasn't writing material back then, but I would say funny stuff. I was good at making fun of people's moms. If I knew something personal about you, it would be used against you.”

People Ifs Writing Firsts Play Would Be School Used Fun Stuff Records Comedy Player Brother Materials Mom High School Bills Albums My Brother Grades Funny Stuff Record Players

Author:Felipe Esparza

“Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.”

Giving Player Hey Nba Kim Nba Player Single Again

Author:Frank Caliendo

“Tiger Woods is stupid; not for cheating, but for having one cell phone. What type of player you know has one cell phone?”

Knows Player Stupid Type Phones Woods Cells Cheating Tigers Cell Phone

Author:Donnell Rawlings

“True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.”

Knows Player Fans Yankees

Author:J. B. Smoove

“The end goal is to become FIFA Women's Player of the Year.”

Years Ends Goal Player Fifa

Author:Carli Lloyd

“I'm obviously coming out of the Australian summer with amazing momentum, knowing I can pretty much hang in there with anybody and even beat some of the best players. So for me, it's definitely a good feeling, I think.”

Thinking I Can Feelings Knowing Player Summer Beats Coming Out Momentum Australian Best Players Good Feeling Hang In There

Author:Sloane Stephens

“I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have a career as a college professor, and yet I did all those things and I did them well. I put out some records in the 1980's and 1990's that changed the way some trumpet players played.”

Way Wells Careers Records Player Changed College Musician Jazz Professors Classical Music Jazz Music Trumpets Jazz Musician Classical Musicians College Professors

Author:Paul Smoker

“For my money, Ray Brown is the greatest living bass player. Every great thing that's happened on bass since Ray Brown -- all of us point back to him. That's where it started, you know. Ray Brown is definitely a walking master, and to get to play with him is obviously an opportunity that no one should ever pass up.”

Knows Should Play Opportunity Player Happened Masters Walking Great Things Brown Rays Bass Bass Players

Author:Christian McBride

“Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too, now. At first I didn't feel that way; I wanted to be a tenor player. It took a long time for me to feel that alto was the most expressive of the saxophones.”

People Way Feels Firsts Wells Long Hard Play Wanted Player Long Time Instruments Expressive Saxophone Tenors

Author:Art Pepper

“Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.”

Giving Play Used Too Much Player Band Protection New Orleans Fiddle

Author:Danny Barker

“As I was a kid, I had a bunch of musicians, they always told me that I should listen to all styles of music and try to play all styles and be authentic at it, if I can, because you never know who's gonna call you. This was coming from fellow horn players who would get the call to play with different types of people. Since I was a kid, that was just something I was always interested in.”

People Ifs Knows Should Trying I Can Different Play Kids Growing Up Player Style Type Musician Fellows Bunch Horns

Author:Troy Andrews

“Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and piano player Carl Perkins would die two years later. When the record was recorded I was behind bars myself. In 1955 I was caught with narcotics and had to serve almost five years. Luckily, I was allowed to keep my saxophone in the cell, and I composed a lot during the time. They had to come fetch the music for Playboys from jail.”

Years Art Two Dies Behinds Records Five Player Week Caught Bars Cells Piano Five Years Two Years Jail Session Arrested Junkie Playboy Peppers Saxophone Narcotics Fetch

Author:Jimmy Heath

“I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay in the clubs. Jazz must be accessible to everyone.”

Looks Numbers Player Musician Jazz Clubs

Author:Dee Dee Bridgewater

“While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only an operator, a producer, a scriptor, or a pasticheur.”

Artist Practice Player Myth Producers Code Consumption Aesthetics Operators Exemplary

Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau

“Every girl who has dated a football player ... They all have sex the same way.”

Way Girl Sex Player Football Football Player Every Girl

Author:Kim Kardashian

“I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.”

Courses Asks Player

Author:Darrell Royal

“A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.”

Should Ends Play Action Process Results Careers Player Football Fine Decided Mark End Results Football Match

Author:Michel Patini

“Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character.”

Ifs Character Strong Careers Too Much Player Ruins Penalties Strain Strong Character

Author:Terry Venables

“I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.”

Country Bigs Deals Cities Player Happened Team Lucky Chess Big Deal Chess Players

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.”

Player Masters Contracts Technical Knowledge

Author:Ely Culbertson

“I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.”

Kind Littles Different Certain My Own Player Style Characteristics My Own Style

Author:Tommy Bolin

“To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.”

Thinking Motivational Winning Player Position Basketball Determination Court Teammate Transfers Best Players Unselfish

Author:LeBron James

“The best players don't win championships. The best team players win championships.”

Winning Player Team Championship Best Players Best Team Team Player

Author:John Wooden

“I never wanted our players to think the Super Bowl was the ultimate. I always talk about 'Yes, we're going to win, but what are we going to do as we're winning? What are we going to do after we win?' Winning the Super Bowl is not the destination. It's not an end point. It's what you do from here.”

Thinking Ends Wanted Winning Player Ultimate Destination Bowls Super Bowl

Author:Tony Dungy

“Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy.”

Culture Player Fields Football Pure Competition Intense Beans Sausage Doping English Football Lager Belching Baked Beans

Author:Paolo Di Canio

“Me walk away? What? Never. I always believe that I am the best manager in the world. Why should I have to walk out? I have been working 24 hours a day. The players have to adapt to me, to one person. I cannot be a fake Di Canio.”

World Should Believe Persons Has Beens Hours Walks Player Managers Fake Should I Always Believe I Am The Best Best Manager

Author:Paolo Di Canio

“The shopping is not finished and before the pre-season starts I would like to bring in another two players. I like shopping, maybe I have become a woman.”

Two Player Seasons Finished Shopping Pre Season

Author:Paolo Di Canio

“If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.”

Ifs Should Player Benches

Author:John Wooden

“I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.”

Way Years Bigs Levels Player Baseball Bottom Managers My Way League Lowest Dodgers

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'”

Littles Said Kids Found Games Lost Loses Player Groups Cry Arms Speech Majors Losing League One Time Little Kid Pitcher Major League

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!”

Player Fronts Band Slides Trombone Marching Band

Author:Quincy Jones

“I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.”

Light Song Fun Player Fans Moon Bills Court Guitar Albums Sparks Tribute Phantoms Guitar Player

Author:Duncan Sheik

“One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.”

Way Asks Player Information Band Picks Great Things Good Information

Author:Bill Bruford

“I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.”

Way Writing Mind Humans Kind Two Remember Asks Human Beings Player Information Band Musician Picks Harmony Superiors Great Things Chords Good Information

Author:Bill Bruford

“When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.”

Kids Audience Player Tables Guitar Fantastic Chairs Pants Backwards Ripped Guitar Player Oregon

Author:Meredith Brooks

“I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.”

People Thinking Records Player Rocks Guitar Pops Solo Guitar Solos

Author:Gary Cherone

“Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.”

Player Guitar Guitar Player

Author:John Frusciante

“If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.”

People Ifs Feels Player Emotional Extensions Expressive Emotional Things

Author:Gary Moore

“It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark Wright's producing, all of the players that played on it, me singing, the marketing department, the promotion department at the label... It takes a lot of people to make a hit like that.”

People Stories Song Player Singing Mark Marketing Labels Department Songwriters Promotion Success Stories

Author:Lee Ann Womack

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