Player Quotes — Page 35

PL

Artist

“One of the biggest benefits of playing box for a young lacrosse player is in the development of lacrosse IQ. Because everyone plays with a short stick [in box lacrosse], you have to focus on being a complete lacrosse player versus specializing as an attackman or d-man. That is how your IQ grows and skills improve.”

Men Player Skills

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PT

Phil Thompson

Football Player

“Nobody likes being criticised, particularly by players who will be in Disneyland this summer on their holidays rather than the World Cup in Japan”

Player Summer Holiday

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PH

Priest Holmes

Football Player

“I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.”

Thinking Player Defense

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PF

Prince Fielder

Baseball Player

“Obviously I wasn't playing well at the time. But as a player, you lie to yourself. You say, "There's nothing wrong. I'm just not on time [at the plate]." You make something else up because pain is not an option.”

Lying Pain Player

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DT

Daley Thompson

Athlete

“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.”

Player Personality Tennis

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Cameron Sinclair

Architect

“Treat the world like a failed state, then you can understand the players needed to fix it.”

World Player States

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Edgar Allan Poe

Poet, Writer

“There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.”

Player Chess Analogies

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Emily Dickinson

Poet

“He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.”

Player Keys Blow

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ES

Emmitt Smith

American Football Player

“Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.”

Player Organization Nfl

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ED

Eric Davis

Baseball Player

“I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.”

People Player Team

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ED

Eric Davis

Baseball Player

“I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.”

Player Organization Positive

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PH

Priest Holmes

Football Player

“I hope this serves as a light for others who come into the league as undrafted players.”

Light Player League

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