Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Davis

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

Emmanuelle Beart

I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.

Emma Watson

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

Heidi Klum

I'm not someone who plays hard to get.

John McEnroe

If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

John McEnroe

He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent

John McEnroe

If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.

John McEnroe

I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

John McEnroe

That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before.

John McLaughlin

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

John McLaughlin

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have

John Mellencamp

You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.

John Hodgman

I was always fascinated with the way that things pop on the Internet - the ways you build communities and create little stories and ideas that people play around with and send back to you.

John Hodgman

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

John Hawkes

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

John Frusciante

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

John Frusciante

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

John Frusciante

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

John Evelyn

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

John Fahey

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

John Entwistle

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

John Entwistle

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

John Densmore

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

John Eldredge

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

John McGraw

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

John Millington Synge

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

John Desmond Bernal

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

John Dewey

The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of imagination, but a difference in the materials with which imagination is occupied.

Leo Durocher

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.

Leo Durocher

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Leo Durocher

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.

Leo Buscaglia

Don't over analyze your relationships.

Lee Ritenour

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.