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“Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well, they're giving you their cards for a reason. I said to my wife, 'All the guys get these cards and then when they get to the parking lot they rip them up or throw them away. It's really weird.' My wife .. said maybe you should just sign a picture and mail it to them. You know, 'Great playing golf with you,' or whatever. So, I did and lo and behold some of those guys I sent pictures to way back then are now CEOs at big companies.”

“But I'm confident that my work — and the work of my staff — with our many young players over the last two years will begin to pay off for Mr. Taylor and Timberwolves fans. Now, as important new players are added to the mix, the future of this franchise should be a bright one, and I am thankful for the chance I had, to play a part in shaping that future.”

Should Years Two Important Play Lasts Young Chance Pay Player Fans Two Years Staff I Am Thankful

Author:Kurt Rambis

“From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic moment of the death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer? That of a horse-jockey, a fox-hunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights?”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“To this day, whenever I'm in Milwaukee, which is often, I'm reminded that the people there still haven't gotten over the Braves leaving ... If it helps, they should know the players haven't either.”

People Ifs Knows Should Stills Helping Player Havens Brave Leaving This Day Milwaukee

Author:Hank Aaron

“Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that.”

Thinking Should Said Play Player Kissing Spots Posts Grass Boss Penalties Liverpool

Author:Jerzy Dudek

“A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.”

Should Doe Games Understanding Player Military Theory Cards Businessman Greedy Thorough Strategist Thorough Understanding

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me”

People Should I Can Player Fans Media Listening Waste Intelligent Clubs My Time Should I Crap Wasting My Time

Author:Fabio Capello

“Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.”

“England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.”

Should Light Games Decision Situation Player Fronts Football Judgment Should Have England Errors Nine Managers Soccer Chairman Light Up Rooney

Author:Matt Dickinson

“I didn't do anything during the game. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier.”

Should Games Left Goal Chance Player Football Shots Should Have Horrible Soccer

Author:Robinho

“I think Chris Paul is a great player. He is very unselfish and plays very hard, so he would be a guy if he plays. I think his hand is still questionable, though. I hear they are talking about resting him that weekend. I'm excited to play with all the guys. Marvin Williams is starting to play well, and Salim Stoudamire, I think he should be there.”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Stills Hard Play Hands Would Be Guy Sports Talking Player Starting Excited Weekend Unselfish Questionable Marvin

Author:Andrew Bogut

“The score a player reports on any hole should always be regarded as his opening offer.”

Should Player Offers Golf Holes Opening Reports Score

Author:Tom Mulligan

“My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.”

Ifs Should Sports Goal Opinion Player Team Losing Individuality Acknowledge Awards Hockey Sports Team Mvp

Author:Michael Wilbon

“I am not a player to have regrets. I should have stayed at certain clubs longer, but I don't regret.”

Should Certain Player Regret Should Have Clubs Don't Regret

Author:Kevin Kilbane

“Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Wells Said Stills Helping Shows Bigs Games Focus Player Team Dog He Man Right Now Basketball Faults Excuse Damn Contracts Jealous Rays Basketball Player Good Basketball

Author:Sam Cassell

“I have a problem with players who don't take the loss personally. At a professional level you should - it's our job, it's our livelihood, it's who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.”

Should Problem Jobs Loss Levels Taken Player Who We Are Livelihood

Author:Hope Solo

“We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player.”

Should Humans Player Compare Godly Messi

Author:Franz Beckenbauer

“In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.”

Way Should Player Golf Coaches Officials Microcosm

Author:Lou Holtz

“People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.”

People Way Feels Should Hands Fun Player Baseball Pressure Having Fun Shakes Baseball Player

Author:Dennis Eckersley

“When I gave up me, I became more. I became a captain, a leader, a better person and I came to understand that life is a team game...And you know what?...I've found most people aren't team players. They don't realize that life is the only game in town. Someone should tell them. It has made all the difference in the world to me.”

People Knows World Should Persons Made Life Is Found Games Realizing Differences Leader Player Team Towns Captains Gave Up Better Person Team Player

Author:Don Mattingly

“To master an actual technique, mental culture should come first. Acquiring a technique requires a careful, modest, non-mean, free and attentive mind. In other words a player should do his utmost and nothing less.”

Should Mind Firsts Mean Culture Player Masters Careful Technique Modest

Author:Kyuzo Mifune

“As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mean Jobs Turns Player Starting

Author:Sue Wicks

“You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.”

Knows Should Player Football League Flags Unbelievable Tackling Nfl Players

Author:Brian Urlacher

“Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football?... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get.”

People Knows Should Mind Country Today Politics Names Sports Numbers Millions Player Football Tvs Basketball Letters Baseball Strategy Radio Following China Coaches Newspapers Tea Spectators

Author:Frank Nugent

“These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government sponsored entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They really kicked off this crisis. The state should set the rules and enforce them - but not become involved as a market player.”

Should States Government Player Dangerous Involved Crisis Financial Partnership Entity Rotten Financial System Private Parts

Author:George Soros

“Gary Player and others have said all of us should all give Arnold Palmer a percentage of our earnings because without you there would be no television contracts and without you it wouldn't be as good for anyone.”

Giving Should Said Would Be Player Television Contracts Earning Percentages Without You Gary

Author:Charlie Rose

“Coaches are very important to players. They're people that are mentors, people that are advising them, people that should be their friends and somebody you can rely on on the tour.”

People Should Important Player Coaches Rely Mentor

Author:Novak Djokovic

“Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.”

Ifs Should May Stills Use Suffering Individual Common Teach Successful Player Team Football Weak Defeat Common Sense Being Successful Depressing

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Too many players focus on physical tells. For both online and live games, you should be focusing more on betting patterns and histories. The ability to figure out your opponent's hand based on his betting pattern is a crucial skill.”

Should Hands Games Ability Focus Player Figures Skills Patterns Opponents Online Crucial Betting

Author:Daniel Negreanu

“I think as a veteran player, in general, you should feel that sense of responsibility to try to lead these guys to becoming good pros. You want the league to be in good hands, and you want these guys to become great NFL players and then pass it along to the next generation. You can only lead by example, and that's pretty much what I'm trying to do.”

Thinking Want Feels Should Trying Hands Guy Next Responsibility Player Generations Example Becoming League Nfl Veteran Next Generation Sense Of Responsibility Nfl Players

Author:Champ Bailey

“Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there should be two movements: LG and BT. But then what're ya gonna do about SM players? And intersexed folks who want their own I in the alphabet soup of sex and gender related politics?”

People Want Should Believe Mean Two Sex Player Movement Identity Gay Notion Folks Gender Fixed Related Soup Transgender Fluid Alphabet Bisexuality Sms Alphabet Soup Sex And Gender

Author:Kate Bornstein

“You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.”

Should Player Basketball Speed Selfish Coaching Basketball Coaching

Author:Dean Smith

“There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does”

Should Trying Doe Player Basketball Harder Nba

Book:A Coach's Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball

Source: A Coach's Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball

“Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.”

Should Music Player Limits Busy Reasonable Gamer Busy Life Being Busy Keep Busy

Author:Teddy Wilson

“The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.”

Should Long Gone Focus Player Summer Long Time Call Me Senior Sportsmanship

Author:Dean Smith

“I think people around you should feel like you're always approachable and always open. I mean, kindness - top of the list. And I like people who seem very grounded. That's a lovely quality in a leading player.”

People Thinking Feels Should Mean Seems Quality Kindness Player Like You Lists Lovely Grounded

Author:Erin Davie

“For best results, the competitive player should never depart from his area of expertise”

Should Results Player Areas Expertise

Author:John Train

“I do preach the idea of individualism as in not adapting any kind of style or model other than that one of your own. I always found it strange in art history when studying about the different guilds and movements. It sounded too contrived and having to follow devised parameters to create art. I personally am not a team player in that manner. The art should be labeled by the artist's name only.”

Should Kind Art Ideas Different Artist Found Names Study Player Team Style Movement Strange Models Individualism Adapting Art History Parameters Team Player Guilds

Author:Adamo Macri

“I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.”

Giving Should Trying Stills Left Player College Decided Coaches Lakes Invited Retired Softball Placid Softball Player Tryouts Lake Placid

Author:Elana Meyers

“No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not only that I get justice, but that players' contracts and rights are protected through the next round of bargaining.”

Should Has Beens Next Justice Rights Player Should Have Rounds Contracts Protected Exhausting Bargaining

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.”

Ifs Want Should Years Steps Growing Player Couple League Best Players

Author:Ilya Kovalchuk

“If the player has the confidence and ability, then he should sign with the pro team. Academics certainly play a large part in the decision, but if someone feels they are ready to sign, they should.”

Ifs Feels Should Play Ability Decision Player Team Ready

Author:Mark Mulder

“Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.”

Should Simple Player Team Demand Obedience Conformity Team Player

Author:Alfie Kohn

“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.”

World Way Should Play Games Player Scholes

Author:Xavi

“I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.”

Should Has Beens Stills Home Form Player Fans Style Football Huge Amount Lows Ideals England Rate Admire Shirts Spain Profile Liverpool Scholes Paul Scholes Midfielders

Author:Xabi Alonso

“This Guy (Messi) is the Best Player in the World, no doubt about that. I think we're always nervous about calling people who are currently playing, who are young at 23, to say he's the Best Player ever. But we shouldn't be. We should admit what we are seeing in front of our eyes. This is a special talent, who may be is the Best Player ever been seen.”

People Thinking World Should May Eye Young Guy Doubt Player Seeing Special Talent Fronts Calling Nervous No Doubt This Guy Best Players Messi Special Talents

Author:Gary Neville

“I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and rising through the levels of competition than the player who was content to do things his own way. A player should be interested in learning why things are done a certain way. The reasons behind the teaching often go a long way to helping develop the skill.”

Source: The Wooden-Sharman method: a guide to winning basketball

“The person who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. I expected my players to make mistakes, as long as they were mistakes of commission. A mistake of commission happens when you are doing what should be done but don't get the results you want.”

Want Should Persons Long Done Happens Faces Results Mistake Player Risk Expected Making Mistakes

Book:Coach Wooden One-On-One

Source: Coach Wooden One-On-One

“If he isn't named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)”

Ifs Men Should Years Player Football He Man England Footballer Liverpool Fc Kremlin

Author:Bill Shankly

“Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.”

Should Art Player Talent Absolutes Affection Connected Discussion Overwhelming Fairness Invincible Music Love Ethnicity American Music Goodman

Author:Stanley Crouch