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title: "10 Playing Badly Quotes by 9 authors"
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> [“He could live with them playing badly now and again, he told them, but he demanded 100 per cent on the pitch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillem-balague/he-could-live-with-them-playing-badly-now-and-again-he-told-them-but/)

[Guillem Balague](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillem-balague/)

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> [The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-nicklaus/the-worse-you-re-performing-the-more-you-must-work-mentally-and/)

[Jack Nicklaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-nicklaus/)

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> [“What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.' -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harsha-bhogle/what-matters-isn-t-how-well-you-play-when-you-re-playing-well-what/)

[Harsha Bhogle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harsha-bhogle/)

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> [If I win playing badly, I will not go home happy and I will never tell the players that the result was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quique-setien/if-i-win-playing-badly-i-will-not-go-home-happy-and-i-will-never-tell/)

[Quique Setien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quique-setien/)

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> [We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eden-hazard/we-are-professionals-we-know-when-we-re-playing-badly-so-if-you-have/)

[Eden Hazard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eden-hazard/)

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> [Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-brown/like-many-men-who-play-tennis-when-i-hit-a-ball-into-the-net-i-tend/)

[Craig Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-brown/)

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> [At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cristiano-ronaldo/at-real-psychological-pressure-on-the-players-is-much-more-serious/)

[Cristiano Ronaldo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cristiano-ronaldo/)

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> [What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martina-navratilova/what-matters-isn-t-how-well-you-play-when-you-re-playing-well-what-2/)

[Martina Navratilova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martina-navratilova/)

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> [When you are playing great, it's wonderful. Because you and your partner just want to go out and go (rubbing hands together)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-faldo/when-you-are-playing-great-it-s-wonderful-because-you-and-your/)

[Nick Faldo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-faldo/)

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> [“Secondly, you should be able to control the ball with one touch. If you needed another one, you were not one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillem-balague/secondly-you-should-be-able-to-control-the-ball-with-one-touch-if-you/)

[Guillem Balague](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillem-balague/)

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