#layer

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place. ↗

— Luis Figo

#day #every #every day #fight #football

I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do. ↗

— David Duval

#answers #cultivate #give #i #i think

I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity. ↗

— David Duval

#celebrity #controlling #crowd #enjoy #even

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#bound #change #each #face #happen

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#democratic #enterprise #even #free #free enterprise

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once. ↗

— Brian Eno

#body #different #different parts #dimensions #good

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me. ↗

— John Entwistle

#bass players #get #guitarist #i #like

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful! ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#awful #buy #did #guitar #guitar player

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#give #i #player #still #woman

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#being #football #football player #human #human being