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“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

“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

“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

“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

“Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game.”

Ifs Said Games Pay Player

Author:Terrell Owens

“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.”

“People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.”

People Ifs Wells Made Said Morning Hell Player Dinner Made It Contracts Vegetables Monday Friday Overweight Clauses Friday Morning

Author:Art Donovan

“How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as we’ve said all along, is just to coach ’em up.”

Said Jobs Player Organization Coaches Ems

Author:Randy Carlyle

“When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.”

Said Wanted Young Turns Laughing Player Basketball Laughed Basketball Player

Author:Allen Iverson

“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

“Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special.”

Said Bigs Seems Games Stars Player Special Appreciate Incredibles All Time League Honored Athletic Best Players All Stars

Author:Wilt Chamberlain

“I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.”

Made Said Whole Lost United Powerful Player Minutes Directors Clubs Managers Manchester Manchester United

Author:Alex Ferguson

“The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.”

Made Said Imagine Player Poet Civilization Tennis Judged Decline Tennis Player

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Yesterday the DEA raided several NFL teams suspected of giving prescription painkillers to their players. In its defense, the New York Jets' doctor said, 'We don't give painkillers to our players. We give them to our fans.'”

Giving Said Player Team Fans New York Doctors Defense Yesterday Nfl Jet Prescriptions Painkillers

Author:Conan O'Brien

“That's right, Mitt Romney took on Evander Holyfield in a boxing match for charity, and it was a pretty one-sided fight. But it was still not the worst boxing match we've seen this month. This weekend Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with some former NHL players and scored eight goals. Even Evander Holyfield and Mitt Romney said, 'That looks fake.'”

Looks Said Stills Fighting Games Goal Player Worst Months Charity Eight Former Fake Boxing Hockey Weekend Romney Putin Nhl Exhibitions One Sided Boxing Matches

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.”

Want Said Wanted Games Enjoy Player Football Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Jose Mourinho

“Or I could see Fish, Just a button up, Like a Mayor, Like a President, Just demands so much from his teammates, Has played with so many great players, But still respects everybody. He's 38 years old, And he has nothing else to prove, And I said, "Fish you wanna come get some shots up with me?" And first thing he says is "Yes." He always wants to learn. Even though he's done so much in this league, Played with so many great players, He always wants to learn, And that motivated me To know that it's never a point Where you can stop getting better. And he's a guy that made me realize that.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much.”

Knows Want Said Done Play Games Emotion Too Much Player Nhl Nhl Lockout

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.'”

Said Player Basketball Damn

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“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