Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Bruce

He's a powerful midfielder player who's very strong in the air, ... It's his versatility that really appeals.

He's a playmaker, ... He makes plays in practice so it is no surprise that he did it in the game.

He's a player on the team making the most of his opportunity. And he's trying to be a team leader.

He's a high-energy player. Every team wants a player like that.

Germany has traditionally played a very constructive role regarding E.U. ties with Russia and the West as a whole with Russia.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

George Benson

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

George Benson

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

George Benson

You might not feel like playing pretty all the time. Instead, you might want to play something nasty....you might want to play something out of context with the tune. It might be a note that creates so much tension it becomes unpleasant, but you want it to sound that way.

George Benson

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

George Best

He's not fit to lace my boots as a player. (on Kevin Keegan)

George Best

I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.

George Best

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. A great entertainer needs to have charisma.

George Burns

My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.

George Bernard Shaw

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

George Bernard Shaw

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

George Bernard Shaw

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

George Bernard Shaw

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

George Bernard Shaw

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

George Bernard Shaw

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

George Bernard Shaw

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

Gemma Ward

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

Gemma Arterton

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

Gena Showalter

Kaia tossed Strider a shut-your-mouth frown before bouncing in her seat. "Do I get to help? Can I? You may not know this, but I'm very handy with a blade of any kind, a hacksaw, a whip, a-" "Hey! Someone went through my bag," William said. "So?" Kaia continued, as if William hadn't spoken. "Whatever the weapon, I'm good with it." He would not be impressed. "We won't be using weapons. We'll be smashing jugulars." "Oh, oh! We can play Who Can Smash More!" "No, we can't because you can't help," Stider said at the same time William blurted out, "I'd be disappointed if you didn't help.

Gena Showalter

Ali Bell doesn't play hide-and-seek," Lucas said. "She plays hide-and-pray-I-don't-find-you." Mackenzie smiled. "When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you how many seconds you have to live." Cole chuckled, saying, "Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic." "Oh, oh." Kat clapped excitedly. "There used to be a street named after Ali Bell, but it was changed because nobody crosses Ali Bell and lives. True story.

Gary Moore

If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.

Gary Lineker

...an excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side.

Gary Larson

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

Gary Neville

Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game.

Gary Neville

Paul Scholes. The best! Great player, person, friend!

Gary Neville

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

Gale Sayers

We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.

Fred Couples

I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.