#layers

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#because #control #cue #game #get

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#bonding #certain #certain level #football #football players

After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#believing #bigger #knew #make #olympics

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ↗

— John Updike

#appeals #become #child #childlike #count

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#been #great #haven #having #key

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#back #come #great #history #long

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it. ↗

— Dizzy Dean

#careers #cubs #giants #help #just

I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#five #i #i can #i feel #last

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

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs. ↗

— Tom Waits

#car #cd #discs #feel #hand