"Russel Westbrook is a guy that impacts the game maybe like no other player in this league."
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"Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player."
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"I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word."
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"There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful."
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"I tell anyone who asks me - Scholes is the best English player."
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"Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength... all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!"
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"First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned."
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"The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything."
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"I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it."
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"Poets do not go mad, but chess players do."
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"I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court."
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"I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb."
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"You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S."
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"In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician. Playing in a group, I'm tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That's just me getting older. I'm not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that."
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"The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals."
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"The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish."
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"I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry."
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"Suddenly all is quiet. The other nine players? They're all moving in slow motion! I'm at normal speed! I know where everyone's going even before they know themselves. The basket is huge, maybe six feet across! How can I miss? It's like throwing a rock into a pond."
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"I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college."
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"In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player."
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