Quotes with players

Quotes 61 till 80 of 99.

  • Blaine Lee The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
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  • Billy Beane The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Bill Simmons The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Rony Seikaly The NBA players are smart enough to know that you get the virus from unprotected sex, and we're not going to have unprotected sex on the basketball court.
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  • Bill Parcells The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Ben Jonson The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Billy Gibbons The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Boris Spassky The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Cam Newton The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Casey Stengel The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Merlin Olsen The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
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  • Bobby Fischer There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Vince Lombardi There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • 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.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg There's no question, I guarantee you, that you will see more NFL players getting into wrestling. They have the personality for it.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Carl Hubbell They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Bob Lilly Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
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  • Alan Cohen True champions are team players.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Billy Beane Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Bill Simmons We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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