Sports titans literally become a part of the play and play better for it.
Anything can happen, and sometimes a team can play better in front of their hometown.
Perhaps, they wonder, a government shutdown could be made to play better next time.
If we want to be a good team, we have to play better than this.
If I had maybe gone up there, maybe I would have started to play better.
Once I got the break in the second set, I started to play better.
"Tomorrow will be a really tough match, and I need to play better than today, " he said.
We knew we wanted to play better in the first period tonight and I think we did that.
But the firm's value investing approach should play better now that telecom, media and technology sectors have cratered.
"I really have to play better, " said captain Alex Ovechkin, who recorded only one shot and was a minus-1.
"In the end I had to play better to finish the match, " he said after the 6-2 6-4 win.
In five sets, I always know that I can come back, I can play better, I can finish well.
"We have to get better and play better at both ends of the court, " Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.
But on the back nine, I got kind of emotional, maybe thinking too much, trying too hard to play better.
We all know we can play better than that, but Lord's is different to any other place in the world.
He knows it inside out and he understands the game that Wales wants to play better than any of our nines.
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But Jenkins has warned they will have to play better when they face Pool B favourites Australia in Cardiff on Saturday.
Yet Moratti has dismissed suggestions that Inter play better when Martins is on the pitch and the 30-year-old Vieri in the stands.
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"I'm just delighted that we have another chance to show we can play better than that, " he said after the tense victory.
"This was a great win but I think we can still play better, " said Rask, who made 36 saves for the surging Bruins.
"I want us to play better and show us the qualities that give us the opportunities to score goals and win games, " he said.
"We must play better when we are in possession, " he stated.
And Liverpool have a couple of players in Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres who must surely play better in the return leg than they did at Anfield.
That's the kind of game where when it gets close I should step up a level and play better, and today I did not do that at all.
My reaction was just to try to shrug it off and try to play through it - but let me tell you it did not make me play better.
But with even the most tightly knit crew, there's often one player who practically blasts off the court and inspires his fellow athletes to play better, leap higher, score more.
And while more unusual names play better in creative fields, what parent can predict whether their son or daughter will aspire to become an art dealer or a corporate lawyer?
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