#layer

We try to recruit good players and good people. ↗

— Tim Buckley

#good people #people #players #recruit #try

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give. ↗

— Roberto Clemente

#gave #give #had #i #remembered

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. ↗

— Roberto Clemente

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #convinced #god

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock. ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#condition #good #harder #i #job

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general. ↗

— Kenny Cunningham

#achievements #always #fantastic #general #had

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#animal #arena #arenas #center #cheering

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#athletes #back #ball #bouncing #continue

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player. ↗

— Tim Duncan

#being #cope #everyday #forest #girlfriend

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child. ↗

— Dick Francis

#been #child #come #extent #i

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it. ↗

— Nomar Garciaparra

#game #individual #inspiration #itself #player