Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy McGrady

Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players.

Tracy Letts

I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

Tori Amos

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

Vera Wang

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

Venus Williams

If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.

Venus Williams

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

Venus Williams

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

Venus Williams

In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.

Umberto Eco

To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

Robin Yount

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

Robin Yount

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

Robin Yount

I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys.

Robin Tunney

I usually play disenfranchised youth

Robin Williams

When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.

Robin Williams

The world is open for play, [that] everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.

Trevor Horn

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

Trent Reznor

Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.

Tracy Austin

By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.

Torrey Smith

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver thats fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Torii Hunter

You name it, I've got it. Some players have to be 100 percent (to play), but I don't.

Torii Hunter

I go out every day and try to play great defense. I know my hitting will improve.

Steve Young

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

Steve Waugh

There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don

Steve Zahn

PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.

Steve Yzerman

I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.

Steve Yzerman

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

Steve Yzerman

I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

Steve Vai

Play slow and perfect - that’s the way to becoming a virtuoso.

Steve Vai

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

Steve Vai

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

Vince Gill

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

Vince Vaughn

Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion!

Vince Lombardi

We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.