Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Henman

I didn't play great, I didn't play badly. Marat just played better than me.

Lindsay Davenport

I didn't play great, but I thought she played very smart, which is typical for her. That's what she does best.

I didn't have to say a word to them before overtime. They know it's their time. They played with so much confidence.

Guy Lafleur

I didn't have time to react before I got a sucker punch to the face. It was like one of the players from the Bruins.

Jack Davenport

If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing again, but only slightly different'. Either you do that or you go 'No! I want to play a leprous, lesbian dwarf from Guatemala!' But those parts just aren't coming to me.

Jack Charlton

I'm always suspicious of games where you're the only ones that play it.

J. D. Salinger

If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

Israel Horovitz

I don't direct the plays of others.

Isabelle Huppert

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug

Ion Tiriac

Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.

Ion Tiriac

I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis.

Ilie Nastase

As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

Ikue Mori

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

Jack London

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

Jack Nicklaus

I would never deny that Jack Nicklaus is the greatest player who ever lived.

Jack Nicklaus

Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.

Jack Nicklaus

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

Jack Nicklaus

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

Jack Nicholson

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

Jack Nicholson

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.

Jack Bruce

I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing with different kinds of musicians because I find that really interesting, like learning and working with Kip Hanrahan. There's a great conga player called Milton Cardona and he taught me a lot of the nuances, he's a Santeria Priest and so he knows his onions as it were.

Jack Bruce

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

J. B. Priestley

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

J. Cole

Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true

J. Cole

One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose, Always aim high and rarely obey the rules.

J. B. Smoove

True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

I didn't have a record player.

Harrison Ford

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

Harrison Ford

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

Hannibal Buress

I play myself on everything I do.

Guy Pearce

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

Guy Kawasaki

Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

Greg Chappell

He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease.