Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Rooney

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

Samuel Eto'o

The best player in the world; whenever Iniesta is on the pitch he creates a spectacle.

Salman Rushdie

Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.

Kobe Bryant

I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming.

Kobe Bryant

I'm a scorer, not a triple-double player

Kobe Bryant

Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

Kobe Bryant

There’s a reason why players that have multiple championships have multiple championships. There’s a certain characteristic and an understanding and knowledge and that’s not something that’s easily taught. You kind of have to go through it and it kind of has to be part of your DNA from the beginning.

Kofi Annan

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Kevin Keegan

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.

Kevin Keegan

You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.

Kevin Keegan

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

Keith Jarrett

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

Rainn Wilson

I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

Scott Rolen

I hope I haven't maxed out, because I'm not satisfied. I hope I can be a better ball player, and I hope I'm on my way.

Les Paul

I don't know of a guitar player that has only one guitar. They're never happy with one. I'm never happy with just one of them. I woke up and ended up with six, even if you can only play one at a time!

Lenny Kravitz

If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.

Lara St. John

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

Terry Francona

Sometimes you've got to be a little flexible. For the most part, it's hard to get players to look at the big picture also. I understand that. They're looking at their next start or their next at-bat.

Terry Francona

Once players have my trust, they have it.

Teddy Wilson

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

Teddy Wilson

[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.

Ted Lindsay

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

Scott Ian

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

Scott Ian

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.

Shannon Hoon

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

Len Elmore

I'm not nearly as much of a fan of the NBA as I was maybe 10 or 15 years ago, or certainly as I was when I was a player. It's become more entertainment focused, and less focused on the purity of the game.

Lemmy Kilmister

It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray Vaughan is known by a lot more people than had ever heard of him when he was alive.

Lee Konitz

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Rex brings out the macho talk and tells everyone this is what we're going to be and what we're going to do. And you see what happened. The players did it. It worked.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I am just a player trying to do what Im told.

Lady Gregory

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.