Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Federer

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

Roger Federer

I have a great record against anybody right now, so it doesn't really matter who I play in the final. I'll be in there as the big favorite. But I play my best in the finals, in the important matches. That's why I'm number one. There's no secret...I'm not overconfident, but very confident.

Roger Federer

I'm at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don't freak out...I don't think we can call it a rivalry yet. There's just to many great players around.

Roger Federer

Early in my career, I had no consistency. Now I'm the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good.

Roger Federer

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

Ron Paul

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

Ron Paul

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschool movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to rebuild a free society with constitutional protections.

Sam Mendes

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

Sally Field

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

Sabine Lisicki

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

Ruth Wilson

What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.

Rumi

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

Ron Perlman

I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over.

Roger Zelazny

Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!” “You burn prettily,” I said.

Susan Griffin

Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.

Sunil Gavaskar

Devil wanted to play cricket. So Ravindra Jadeja was born.

Sullivan Stapleton

I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.

Sid Waddell

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

Sheryl Swoopes

Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.

Sheryl Swoopes

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

Shigeru Miyamoto

What I'm really excited about is that continued challenge to create things that gamers of all experiences can play.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play.

Shigeru Miyamoto

For a long time at Nintendo we didn't focus as much on online play because for many years doing so would have limited the size of the audience that could enjoy those features. But certainly now we see that so many people are connected to the Internet. It opens up a tremendous amount of possibilities.

Shigeru Miyamoto

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.

Sharon Gless

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

Shane Warne

I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I'd like them to be honest.

Shane Warne

The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.

Shane Warne

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

Shane Warne

I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.

Shane Warne

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

Neil Peart

If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part.

Neil Peart

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage