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"I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats."
"Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God."
"We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want."
"Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players."
"I've always considered myself a crunch-time player. I just love having the ball in my hands. Everyone in the arena knows the ball is supposed to be in your hands and you still make it. It's the odds. I love the odds."
"Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He's the greatest trumpet player to play along with singers. He exactly knows how to play with you, how to answer you about what you just sang ... On top of that, he has some great sense of humor, both as a musician and as a man. Every time I see him, I'm laughing so much. Sweets is impeccable and incomparable."
"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."
"We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here."
"One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself."
"A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that."
"I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts."
"All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself."
"Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know"
"Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills."
"I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon."
"Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard."
"Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream."
"Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend."
"No baritone player should be afraid of the noise it makes. Harry Carney isn't!"
"Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it."
