Player Quotes — Page 42

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Professional Football Player

“I had people who were around me, people that I put a lot of trust in that sort of messed me over. So after that I said, only I can look back over my life and say I was responsible for whom I hired. I was responsible for how I managed my money. So I decided I wanted to do it myself. I understood the business of football. And because I can understand the business of football, I decided it's the best decision for me to be an agent. It made the most sense and I think a lot of players are opening their eyes to it as well.”

Eye Player Football

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Ryan Miller

Ice Hockey Player

“From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.”

Player Care True Friend

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Ryan Adams

Musician, Singer-songwriter

“It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.”

Choices Player

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Ryan Adams

Musician, Singer-songwriter

“I was never much of a bass player.”

Player Bass

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Ryne Sandberg

Baseball Player

“I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.”

Player Growing Up Hero

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Ryne Sandberg

Baseball Player

“No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.”

Sports Player Baseball

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Seth Green

Actor

“I'm a control freak except that I'm a good team player. So I obsess about the details of things but I also trust the team.”

Player Team Details

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Reggie Lee

Actor

“Kusewera, an organization that fosters orphanages in Africa and the Philippines and encourages through creative play and education. Anything and everything that supports cancer research. East West Players, the oldest and biggest Asian American theater in the U.S.”

Player Organization Cancer

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Ray Lewis

Football Player

“The more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through, blocking schemes, even down to player tendencies and what hand they like to carry the ball with.”

Running Player Block

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Ray Lewis

Football Player

“It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player.”

People Want Player

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Ray Brown

Musician

“[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would just sit there like this. And all of a sudden there'd be a pause from all the trumpets and everything and Monk would go 'plink!' like that. And everybody would go 'Yeah!”

Mean Player Piano

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Ray Brown

Musician

“The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one and only. He was one of the greatest Blues players that I ever heard and played with. Nobody can play like Sweets man, nobody! Most of us, musicians, frequently quote Sweets' phrases in our solos. Like Lester Young, Sweets had a big influence on us musicians, especially when we play some Blues.”

Player Sweet Unique

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