Player Quotes — Page 36

Poet, Biographer

“I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.”

Song Player Baseball

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Cartier Martin

Basketball Player

“Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.”

Winning Player Team

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David Bowie

Musician, Actor

“Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my first saxophone, a Selmer. It was a strange Bakelite material - that creamy plastic with all the gold keys on it. I had to get a job as a butcher's delivery boy to start paying for it.”

Player Boys Ambition

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David Bowie

Musician, Actor

“I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.”

World Book Player

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David Foster Wallace

Writer

“He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.”

Player Son Tennis

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Dean Smith

Basketball Coach

“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.”

Player Summer Senior

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Deron Williams

Basketball player

“It seems like teams want a guy who can get 10, 11, 12 assists. That's the kind of player I want to be. Sometimes that is more important than scoring 30 points a night.”

Night Player Team

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Derrek Lee

Baseball Player

“If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.”

Writing Player League

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Diana Lopez

Artist

“When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.”

People Player Volleyball

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Douglas Adams

Writer, Humorist

“You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would actually respond to the audience, rather than just having the audience respond to the storyteller. I had an enormous amount of fun, actually, working on that.”

Fun Player Computer

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Dontrelle Willis

Baseball Player

“I hope that more [African-Americans] decide to play after seeing the things that I was able to accomplish; not only myself, but other African-American players. Hopefully, they pick up a bat and a ball and go out there and play.”

Player African American Bats

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Adam Oates

Hockey Player

“Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.”

Littles Player Assistants

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