#player

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues. ↗

— Robin Yount

#coached #conner #contracts #gone #high

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place. ↗

— Boris Becker

#any #germany #hero #heroes #i

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#coming #distractions #football #footballers #get

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. ↗

— Walter Becker

#best #better #blues #influences #jazz

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching. ↗

— Gary Burton

#constantly #guitar #guitar player #heard #keeps

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#i #know #player #pretty #pretty good

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh. ↗

— Rod Carew

#direction #get #glove #goes #his

People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax. ↗

— Will Carling

#important #off #people #players #relax

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back. ↗

— Ben Chandler

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #called #i

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#blues #country #early #every #few