Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Simon Sinek

It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.

Simon Kuper

I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch.

Tim Henman

I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.

Tim Henman

There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I played hundreds of players from Eastern Europe and Russia who had no facilities at all.

Ruud Gullit

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

Ruud Gullit

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

Ruud Gullit

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

Ron Jaworski

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

Roger Milla

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

Roger Maris

I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.

Ray Stevens

Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.

Ray Stevens

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

Ray Manzarek

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Ray Manzarek

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Ray Lewis

It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player.

Ray Lewis

I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.

Ray Lewis

My thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That's who I am, and that's what I'm here for.

Raph Koster

The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.

Rick Reilly

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

Rick Pitino

Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.

Taylor Hanson

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

Robin Hobb

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

Rob Schneider

People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world ... have you thought about polo?'

Robert Manne

The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.

William Irwin Thompson

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

Wilhelm Steinitz

No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

Walter Hagen

The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.