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Russell Westbrook Professional Basketball Player
Player

"Because [Russel Westbrook] is so rare and impacts the game in so many different ways, you see the usage and the amount of time he's playing and say, 'is this sustainable?' I look at it the other way. Are we playing the right way, are we playing together as a team, and what are his minutes like? This is not a guy that's playing 42 minutes a night. When he goes out there he's going to play to who he is, and I think he also understands that in order for our team to be the best we can be he's got to incorporate and help everybody grow as players."

Night Player Team
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Paul Brown Football Coach
Player

"I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines."

Player Wife Complaining
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Deshaun Watson Professional American Football Player
Player

"The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing."

People Player Football
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Jerry West Basketball Player
Player

"To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction."

Player Team One Direction
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Pele Professional Footballer
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"How much soccer training is it needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine. Setting long and short-term goals is a must. When planning out a soccer training regime, one must strive for realistic and consistent program that will diminish specific weaknesses. Broad versatility of soccer skills is the Nirvana of every dedicated trainee."

Player Skills Soccer
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Pele Professional Footballer
Player

"I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player"

Believe Player Soccer
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Player

"Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on."

Games Player Football
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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"Seriously, the Olympic badminton players were apparently trying to lose on purpose, a big story. But really, think about it, if you train day and night for four years to be in the Olympics for badminton, in a way, haven't you already lost?"

Funny Night Player
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Steve Young American Football Player
Player

"I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk."

Real Player Risk
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Andy Murray Tennis Player
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"I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport."

Eye Sports Player
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Player

"Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them."

Writing Player Casting
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Paul Simon Musician, Songwriter
Player

"Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that."

Song Player Creative
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Player

"Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero."

Player Hero Baseball
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Stephen King Author
Player

"As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me."

Player Basketball Optimistic
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
Player

"Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?"

Girl Taken Player
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