Best Players Quotes - Page 5

• My goal was to go to college and come out the best player.

  Mark Teixeira

  Player, College, Goal

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• 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

  Hurt, Mean, Fighting

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• Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.

  Bill Walton

  Player, Conferences, Eastern

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• Every time he plays, Leo Messi reminds me more of Maradona, both left-footed and short, Messi is the best player in the world, along with Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo. For us it is not a surprise. Since he began to come and train with us and we knew we would go down this path. Someday I will explain that I was at the birth of one of the footballing greats: Leo Messi.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Cristiano Ronaldo, Player, Messi

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• It's a wonderful feeling that I get a chance to play with some of the best players in the world.

  Shawne Merriman

  Player, Feelings, World

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• ...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.

  Jim Brown

  Team, Player, People

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• I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Chess Game, World

  "Chess Digest Magazine", Volume 4, 1971.

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• Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

  John Paxson

  Funny, Basketball, Player

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• You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.

  Brett Favre

  Believe, Wrestling, Player

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• My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Baseball, Player, Names

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• Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Player, Hesitation

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• My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Brother, Team

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• MVP is the best player in the league. I think that's too big for me. When people call me the MVP, I'm a little surprised by that.

  Rafael Soriano

  Thinking, Player, Mvp

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• Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Player, Winning

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• The way I look at it within myself, why not? Why can't I be the MVP of the League? Why can't I be the best player in the League? I don't see why-why-why can't I do that? I think I work hard, I think I dedicate myself to the game and sacrifice a lot of things at a young age and I know if I continue to do good, what I can get out of it and if that's me going out or doing whatever, I'm willing to do it because I know in the long run, it's going to help me.

  Derrick Rose

  Running, Hard Work, Sacrifice

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• If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.

  Derrek Lee

  Writing, Player, League

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• I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.

  Kevin Durant

  Tired, School, Player

  "Kevin Durant sick of second, working for first with help of advanced stats" by Ben Golliver, www.si.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

  Hank Aaron

  Failure, Player, Bed Of Roses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.

  Ilya Kovalchuk

  Couple, Player, Years

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• I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game; they were our best players and deserved to start. But if I knew all the misery it was going to cause me in the weeks following the game, I'd have thought long and hard about it. The players from Kentucky were gracious about it, but many of their fans and people from other parts of the country did not want to see it.

  Don Haskins

  Basketball, Country, Player

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• Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Athlete, Player

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• I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.

  Paul Pierce

  Sports, Team, Player

  Interview with Jeff Lenchiner, www.insidehoops.com. November 5, 2003.

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• I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there. Absolutely astounding.

  Alex Ferguson

  Boys, Cristiano Ronaldo, Player

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• If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

  Xavi

  Football, Player, Thinking

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