"The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game"
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"We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it."
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"It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us."
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"I've talked about how the future of journalism will be a hybrid future where traditional media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy) and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism)."
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"Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player."
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"Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of."
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"My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for."
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"Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music."
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"My thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That's who I am, and that's what I'm here for."
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"I really rate Paul Scholes, because he hasn't got the high profile of many of the Manchester United players, he doesn't get too much attention, but he is one very good player. He is an intelligent player, he works hard and he scores some great goals. He is not flamboyant and is a quiet lad off the pitch but he is a tremendous asset to Manchester United and to England. He has already got my vote as player of the year."
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"My job is to make the players I'm playing with better. I'm going to be the cat that does a lof of the other things.'"
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"You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs."
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"I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality."
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"I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not."
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"If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem."
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"The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player."
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"Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person."
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"A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck."
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"King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players."
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"I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there."
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