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The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.
John Kessel
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John Kessel
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 24
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John Joseph Vincent Kessel
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The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
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