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As a player, you are more concerned with the moments when you have possession of the ball or are about to receive the ball. You are watching your team-mates and trying to decide what the possibilities are.
Frank Rijkaard
You
Possession
Possibilities
About
More
Concerned
Ball
Trying
Decide
Your
Moments
Receive
Player
Watching
When you are a coach, you are watching how the team is positioning itself on the field - if your team is in possession of the ball, you are already anticipating what could happen if you lose the ball.
Frank Rijkaard
You
Lose
Field
Positioning
Possession
Could
Ball
How
Anticipating
Itself
Happen
Coach
Your
Team
Watching
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Art
Good
Mistake
Confusion
First
Pleasant
Possession
Entirely
Properly
Involved
So-Called
Speaking
Second
Profound
My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.
George W. Romney
Life
Work
Religion
Church
Responsibility
My Life
Become
Possession
Easily
Has-Been
Vital
Except
Could
Excess
Sharing
Most
Industry
Occupied
Been
Precious
My priority is possession. Attack, get a lot of players in the opposition half, take risks.
Gerardo Martino
Risks
Half
Possession
Attack
Take
Priority
Opposition
Lot
Get
Players
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.
Gilbert Highet
Needs
Man
Soul
Wealth
Power
Duty
Enjoy
Enrich
Possession
Beyond
Real
His
Multiply
Extend
The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back.
Glenn Murray
Back
Possession
Archetypal
More
Tracking
Ball
Than
Get
Being
Interested
Skillful
Who
Player
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
Graham Coxon
Guitar
Before
Possession
Folk
Martin
Cleaned
Had
Bought
Suppose
Becoming
Cambridge
Up
Quickly
Festival
Prize
Lovely
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Little
The Iraqi people will not allow any country to take possession of their own resources.
Haider al-Abadi
People
Will
Country
Own
Resources
Possession
Take
Allow
Iraqi
Iraqi People
Any
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
Harry Houdini
Church
Become
Secrets
Possession
Kind
Would
Records
Allow
Priests
Does
How
Came
Were
Any
Public
Them
Appear
Ever
Hardly
Early
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
Henry Walter Bates
Friendship
Together
Fruit
Animals
Other
Took
Possession
Favourite
Never
Put
Occasions
Test
Meals
Hard
Each
Disputed
Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.
Hisham Matar
Money
Political
Possession
Take
Narrative
Dictatorships
Just
As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.
J. M. Coetzee
Day
People
Some People
September
Too
Other
Possession
Easily
Significance
Some
Seem
Date
Like
Calendar
Another
Another Day
July
American
May
December
Just
While
Us
Full
Grant
Let Us
Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?
James Hetfield
Family
You
Nothing
Possession
Except
Know
Prized
Really
I have always been comfortable in possession, but it is tracking and tackling that I have been working on.
James Maddison
Possession
Tackling
Tracking
Comfortable
Always
Been
Working
The most dazzling aspect of 'Possession' is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century.
Jay Parini
Invention
Possession
Poems
Most
Dazzling
Diaries
Century
Aspect
Letters
A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.
Jay Parini
Time
Every
Possession
Inspection
Delight
Writer
Tour
Device
Come
Opens
Force
Because
Without
Narrative
Fiction
Certainly
English
Moment
Whose
I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
Jen Lancaster
Fight
Culture
Book
First
Club
Guess
Chuck
Possession
Signed
Most
Edition
Prized
Pop
Fight Club
Pop Culture
It's the heart that I play with on every single possession. And that's all that it is.
Jimmy Butler
Heart
Single
Every
Possession
Play
My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.
John Rocha
Made
Possession
Firm
Most
Fishing
Rod
Precious
American
The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.
Jose Mourinho
Game
Control
Possession
Would
More
Only
Like
Terms
The Only Thing
Thing
It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
Joyce Carol Oates
Human Being
Claim
Possession
Enter
Must
Only
Through
Take
He
Make
Another
His
Labor
Human
Being
Wants
Body
Her
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
Jules Verne
World
Wealth
Cause
Desolate
Evils
Possession
Responsible
Only
Almost
Sin
Leads
Abuse
Most
Inevitably
Chief
Gold
Which
Regrettable
Below
Thirst
I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.
Julie Harris
Everyone
Say
Possession
About
Seems
Football
Know
Much
I want to play against the best, and that's what I'm doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.
Kawhi Leonard
Best
Every
Possession
Focused
Out
Doing
Going
Just
Being
Want
Against
Play
Competing
Karen is as good a coach's wife as I've ever been around, and she's better than most. She loves basketball and has a great understanding of my responsibilities, my possession.
Kelvin Sampson
Good
Great
Better
Wife
Understanding
Possession
Responsibilities
Most
She
Around
Been
Than
Loves
Coach
Ever
Basketball
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