Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Taylor

I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

Gordon Smith

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

Gordon Strachan

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

Gordon Strachan

Arsene Wenger was talking about comparisons with Johan Cruyff, a player who only comes around every 10 years and Thierry Henry is definitely one of those

Gordon Strachan

It wasn't an easy decision to leave out Bobo, because I could have done that with two or three from the back four. But there's a limit to the players you have and the changes you can make. The reality is we're not defending well enough. But we just have to plug on. There's no magic formula.

Gordon Strachan

Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb.

Gordon Lightfoot

Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, "why didn't you play?" If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.

Gordon Ramsay

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true object of human life is play.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

John Dryden

[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

John Mayer

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

John Mayer

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

John Mayer

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

John Mayer

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

John Mahoney

I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.

John Malkovich

I don't mind what I play, really.

John Malkovich

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

John Malkovich

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

John Malkovich

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

John Lurie

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

John Lloyd Young

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

John Lydon

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

John Lithgow

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

John Lithgow

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

John Legend

I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

John Legend

I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a huge part of my life.

John Leguizamo

I had to work with Ben Mendelsohn who's one of the great actors of our time. I had a lot of scenes with him and I was thrilled to be on the set with him; I just wanted to see how we were going to play it.

John Leguizamo

I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.

John Lee Hooker

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

John Lee Hooker

I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.

John Kruk

You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!

John L. Lewis

No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.