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I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.
Susan Rice

Play, Others, Team

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
Joe DiMaggio

Family, Why, Rich

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
Hayden Fry

Making, Times, Influence

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.
Jack White

Secret, Space, Played

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Character, Themselves, Within

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.
Terry Bradshaw

Winning, Again, Fame

I always wanted to be a basketball player.
Ronnie James Dio

Basketball, Wanted

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova

Life, Strength, Experience

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
John Malkovich

Good, Football, Baseball

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Time, Play, Year

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
John McLaughlin

End, Greatest, Off

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.
John Mayer

Guitar, Wanted, Blues

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
Shaquille O'Neal

Business, Famous, Job

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
Marilyn vos Savant

Time, Learning, Two

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
Sally Ride

Hero, King, Mine

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
Pat Riley

Moving, Game, Team

I'm not a great piano player.
Norah Jones

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.
Jeanne Moreau

Love, Women, Football

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.
George H. W. Bush

Good, Pretty, Tennis

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
Barry Sanders

Life, Battle, Whole

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
Carlos Santana

Rest, Blues, Okay

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.
Tim Duncan

Time, Sorry, Cheer

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
Anatoly Karpov

Strong, Human, Champion

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.
Paul Simon

Work, Together, Creative

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.
Venus Williams

Happen, Goal, Try

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
Sidney Poitier

Month, Demand, Scripts

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.
Eric Davis

Good, Put, Lives

I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Ray Manzarek

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
Ritchie Blackmore

Amazing, Attention, Everybody

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.
Ritchie Blackmore

Great, Attitude, Him

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