Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Weller

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

Phil Hellmuth

I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect.

Phil Knight

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

Phil Jackson

I always tell the players, "We are in the business that's very much like a marathon race only we're gonna be doing it for 260-something days or so." And the race is something you get ready to do. There's gonna be some trial inside of there, but you put yourself through it because ultimately it brings a lot of meaning to your life, it gives a lot of energy to what you're doing.

Phil Jackson

The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.

Phil Jackson

Make your work your play and your play your work.

Phil Jackson

The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.

Martin Parr

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

Lee Ann Womack

There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.

Lee Ann Womack

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others

LeBron James

I spoil a lot of people with my play,

LeBron James

Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.

Laurie Metcalf

I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

Philip Roth

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself — a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required.... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.

Philip Roth

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

Peyton Manning

I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.

Peyton Manning

Im happy to volunteer for the American Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet. The Red Cross is an organization that responds to those in need and it is an honor to help them with the lifesaving role they play everyday in communities nationwide.

Peyton Manning

I don't want to retire. I still want to play.

Peter Drucker

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

Peter Baker

President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.

Penelope Wilton

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

Penn Jillette

Every poker player is smarter than me.

Pee Wee Reese

I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.

Pee Wee Reese

If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.

Paulo Coelho

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Mariska Hargitay

Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.

Maria Sharapova

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

Maria Sharapova

Physically, I have to get a lot better, ... I have to play these three setters and the points are going to go on and on. This is not something that is going to happen overnight. I am only 18 and this is going to take time. My body is still growing and I'm still adjusting to my own body.

Maria Sharapova

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

Maria Sharapova

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.