#layers

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#best #challenge #fighting #here #hurts

Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#being #companies #either #energy #generate

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. ↗

— Mose Allison

#armstrong #been #classic #cole #influences

Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money. ↗

— Rob Andrew

#contract #elsewhere #england #get #just

You are always going to get extreme views around coaches and players. ↗

— Rob Andrew

#around #coaches #extreme #get #going

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it. ↗

— Roger Angell

#baseball #because #box #death #faking

It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places. ↗

— Richard Benjamin

#character #different #else #elsewhere #even

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#even #football #france #hear #holland

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#aim #games #go #many #out

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. ↗

— Larry Bird

#believe #better #getting #giving #go