Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark McGwire

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

Mark McGwire

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

Mark McGwire

Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.

Marion Bartoli

It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

Nikki Sixx

I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.

Nikki Giovanni

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

Nikki Giovanni

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Nick Saban

I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.

Nick Saban

To be a great player, you have to affect the entire unit.

Nick Offerman

I am a saxophone player.

Nick Offerman

I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'

Nick Hornby

An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.

Marvin Gaye

I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right.

Kevin Johnson

It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.

Evan Parker

My roots are in my record player.

Evangeline Lilly

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.

Muriel Rukeyser

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

Mike Quade

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

Kurt Masur

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

Kirk Ferentz

Bob Sanders wasn't the biggest guy coming out of Erie, Pa., but I don't think anybody would dispute that he was a pretty good player for us.

Kirk Hammett

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

Kevin Costner

I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed.

Kenny Cunningham

I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionated - maybe the lads might say a little bit too opinionated for their liking but that is just a natural progression for a player.

The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.

Kristin Cavallari

If a guy won't commit, he's a player.

Mohsin Hamid

For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the U.S. as a geopolitical player.

Giorgio Moroder

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

You have different levels of players. There's are Premier League, international and world-class levels. The world-class level is players at the peak of their career and there's only maybe 50 maximum in the whole world. Stevie moved from a Premier League player to an international player and then world class.

Harry Redknapp

You couldn't put a value on him, he's on another planet. For me, Lionel Messi is undoubtedly the No.1 player in the world.

Harry Redknapp

Lionel Messi is the most amazing player I have ever seen.

Harry S Truman

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Ivan Lendl

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.