Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johan Cruijff

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

Johan Cruijff

Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs

Johan Cruijff

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

Johan Cruijff

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

Johan Cruijff

If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball

Johan Huizinga

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Johan Huizinga

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Joel Kinnaman

I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time. Even though it's only 200 people in the audience, and a movie like RoboCop is going to be seen by many, many people, I know I'd be much more nervous doing a play than being on set shooting.

Joe Lando

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.

Joe Jonas

I wanna go play my music in a club.

Joe Klein

Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

Joan Rivers

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

Jimmy Smits

It's great to be able to play the bad guy role because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why. How does a person get to that particular point? It's those little cogs in the wheel that make it interesting for me to play. Ultimately, I hope for the audience to be engaged with it because it is going to take a turn.

Jimmy Fallon

They're making a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, called 'Southside With You,' and the producers say they've already cast someone to play young Barack Obama. Now, I'm not saying the president has aged a lot but that young actor is Morgan Freeman.

George A. Sheehan

Play is where life lives

Geoff Downes

Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.

Garry Kasparov

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

Garry Kasparov

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Garry Kasparov

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.

Garry Kasparov

Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.

Garry Kasparov

Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players.

Garry Kasparov

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

Gabriela Sabatini

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

Gabriela Sabatini

It was so easy to play tennis, so easy.

Gabriela Sabatini

I'm following the players, and it's great. We've never had so many Top 10 big players like now. There's so many out there that are very close.

Frankie Avalon

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

Frank Caliendo

Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.

Frank Chodorov

Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.

George Clooney

I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

Geezer Butler

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence

Geezer Butler

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

Geddy Lee

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

Geena Davis

They called and said, "I know we're not supposed to even tell you, but you've been offered to play the President." And I said, "OK. Say yes." And they were like, "Do you want to read it maybe?" And I was like, "No, I just want to be the president."