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Russell Wilson American Football Player
Player

"As a young rookie NFL player, you go to the rookie symposium and the one thing they tell you is, "You guys know what the NFL stands for?" Everybody looks around like, "National Football League...?" The guy's like, "Nope - Not For Long." They tell you right there to get prepared for your second life. You take that in, and I've always been one to prepare early, to see ahead and anticipate and believe in great things happening, and they do. I'd already known that concept and appreciated that concept, but for me, I was always going to be here for a while. I just believed in that."

Believe Player Football
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Ryne Sandberg Baseball Player
Player

"I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game."

Years Games Player
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Lewis Pugh Explorer, Environmentalist
Player

"Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players."

Littles Player Soccer
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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Player

"Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello."

Player Fans Guitar
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Jeffrey Lewis Singer-songwriter, Comic Book Artist
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"About Jimi Hendrix - although his playing is at an uber-level, his voice is quite lo-fi and normal, like a regular person singing in the shower, and this makes his music much better than if he was just a technical player and singer."

Voice Player Uber
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John Green Author, YouTuber
Player

"Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both."

Winning Games Player
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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Player

"There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?"

Player Baseball Television
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world."

Life Games Player
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B. B. King Musician
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"The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever."

Player Guitar Depressing
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B. B. King Musician
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"My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player."

Beautiful Mother Player
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Cal Hubbard Athlete
Player

"It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well."

Games Player Team
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Barack Obama Politician
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"We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that’s a risk we can’t take."

Real Games Player
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