Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ndamukong Suh

The players who said I am the dirtiest player in the league, it's ultimately their opinion, but I would love to hear from many of them on their true opinion on that.

Mark Knopfler

As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience...

Mickey Mantle

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

Neelie Kroes

It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bigger player in other member states. The ruling shows that in these cases it is essential that companies propose adequate remedies in order to guarantee sufficient competition from other firms.

Ned Colletti

I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Little Richard

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

Paul Gascoigne

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

Patrick McEnroe

Being a celebrity is like being raped, and there's absolutely nothing a player can do about it.

Patrick Rafter

I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.

Paul Merson

The best player I ever played against was Paolo Maldini. We [Arsenal] played against Milan in the European Supercup [in 1995]. Maldini marked me and I didn’t even get a kick of the ball all game. He was just unbelievable,

Paul Jewell

You have to be disciplined because if you lose your discipline and lose your shape, we're playing against better players, so they'll take advantage.

Paul Jewell

Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan, Bob Paisley, Roy Evans - they were hard on us young players. If you got a 'well done' off Ronnie Moran, you must have played well... They never used superlatives at Liverpool.

Paul Hogan

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

Paul Ince

The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.

Ken Burns

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

Marcel Duchamp

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

Manuel Pellegrini

You will never see players from City surround the referee.

Kid Rock

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

Kevin Martin

It's really up to me to speed up my learning curve as a player so I can contribute in a much bigger way night in and night out.

Kevin Martin

It was a good feeling to have a lot of support. A lot of people respect me as a player but also as a person as well.

Shawn is an unyielding player who plays with tremendous heart.

Bear Bryant

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

Martina Navratilova

All top players are the same strokewise, but mentally I can improve and that's where it's at for top players.

Martina Navratilova

I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.

Pinetop Perkins

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.