#player

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#ball #ball game #ballplayer #could #game

I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no. ↗

— Al Leiter

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For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player. ↗

— Mario Lemeiux

#hockey player #i #i can #key player #long

We, as a league, must do a better job of protecting the integrity of the game and the safety of our players. ↗

— Mario Lemeiux

#better job #game #integrity #job #league

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#enjoy #every #goes #i #i can

Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#again #back #best #certainly #come

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#did #differently #era #fair #game

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#could #done #favorites #get #just

I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want. ↗

— Alan Lewis

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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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