Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rafael Nadal

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

Rafael Nadal

He's a fantastic player and he's going to be around so much longer so I'm happy with every one I get before he takes them all

Rafael Nadal

The US player Andy Roddick reaches speeds of 220 kilometers per hour when he serves. If I train with him every day, I will later be at an advantage against a player whose service crosses the net at 190 kilometers per hour.

Rafael Nadal

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

Rafael Nadal

Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.

Rafael Nadal

I play each point like my life depends on it.

Rafael Nadal

I became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.

Sherwood Smith

If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you doing out here? (Gallagher) Not much. Akri is off with that red-headed demon so he said I could go play just so long as I don’t eat nothing not cooked by a human. But all my favorite places are closed so I thought I’d go find the bears myself and see if Jose, since he’s human, would make me up something good that wouldn’t make akri mad if I ate it. (Simi)

Nina Jacobson

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

Nigel Short

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Nigel Short

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw ...

Nicolas Chamfort

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

Nick Ferguson

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

Nomar Garciaparra

It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play.

Nomar Garciaparra

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.

Nolan Ryan

I can't imagine Joe DiMaggio was a better all-around player than Dale Murphy.

Norah Jones

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

Norah Jones

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

Norah Jones

I'm not a great piano player.

Norah Jones

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

Nora Ephron

Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.

Niels Bohr

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Nastassja Kinski

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

Nat King Cole

If I could read it, I could play it.

Nadia Bjorlin

I would love to play Wonder Woman; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.

Myrna Loy

Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?

Monique Coleman

I play so young because of my looks.

Monica Seles

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

Montel Williams

It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration was better suited to handle that than the former.

Miranda Leek

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.

Mireille Enos

Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.

Miles Teller

I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.