Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ringo Starr

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

Ringo Starr

Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they'd say, 'Oh, double-track that.' I don't know how you do that, because when I'm in a fill I'm sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can't pure me the same, twice. So, that's that.

Ringo Starr

From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.

Ringo Starr

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

Ringo Starr

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

Ringo Starr

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

Ringo Starr

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

Ringo Starr

I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.

Ringo Starr

I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned...

Ringo Starr

F irst and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things. ...But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them. ...My soul is that of a drummer....It came to where I had to make a decision -- I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.

Ringo Starr

I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

Rihanna

I never play the victim, I’d rather be a stalker.

Rick Astley

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the Luddites. Im happiest when Im behind the kit.

Rick Barry

Success in anything is about focus and concentration. When I coached, I'd say to the players, 'Yes, I know you played hard, but that's not good enough. You've got to stay focused on the task at hand the entire game.'

Rick Barry

I fantasize about LeBron's ability. He is the best player I have ever seen at this age.

Tim Rice

Chess is the only game greater than its players.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I couldnt change who I am; I couldnt change the kind of player I am.

Tiffeny Milbrett

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.

Tilman J. Fertitta

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

Tilda Swinton

It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.

Tiger Woods

When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.

Tiger Woods

There are a lot of great players from Europe who have never played Augusta, but all the guys in America have all played St. Andrews. They've gone over and made a trip to play St. Andrews.

Tiger Woods

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

Tiger Woods

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

Reggie Evans

It just feels good to play again. That's what keeps me going. I've focused harder because of it.

Reggie Bush

Pressure to me now has become almost part of my life. It doesn't really affect me anymore. People talk about me being under pressure or having pressure of having to come in and be this great player that everyone expects me to be right away. It doesn't really faze me. It's become second nature now. It's almost like it would be weird not to have it.

Regina King

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

Reggie Jackson

There's a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for.

Raymond Cruz

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

Raymond Berry

Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so.

Tom Kelley

Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.

Tom Holt

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

Tom Hooper

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.