Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robbie Robertson

I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys.

Alexei Sayle

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Make one or two more plays than they do.

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

Stefan Hell

Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before.

Ricky Gervais

It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change.

We're just trying to get to know one another, trying to get to know one another's tendencies. The most important part of it is communicating and being on the same page. . . . We're all professionals and you've been playing the position pretty much your whole life.

Baron Davis

We're just trying to get a win at this point. Can't talk about playoffs when you're losing.

Brian Clough

The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.

Brian Clough

If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.

Brian Clough

If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.

Brian Clough

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

Brian Eno

Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.

Brian Eno

I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.

Brian Eno

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

Brian Eno

It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?"

Bret Bielema

One thing I think you have to do here at Wisconsin is maximize your personnel. From the standpoint of getting our best players out there, you've really got to make sure you're not burying anybody at a position.

Brent Spiner

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Brent Weeks

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Branch Rickey

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

Branch Rickey

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

Brandon Boyd

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

Bootsy Collins

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

Boris Kodjoe

I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

Boris Kodjoe

Usually, when you talk about serialized TV, you're talking about one specific beat that you play, over and over again.

Bobby Short

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Bobby Scott

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

Bobby Vinton

I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.

Bobby Knight

I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.