Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Strachan

It wasn't an easy decision to leave out Bobo, because I could have done that with two or three from the back four. But there's a limit to the players you have and the changes you can make. The reality is we're not defending well enough. But we just have to plug on. There's no magic formula.

Gordon Strachan

Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb.

Gordon Lightfoot

Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, "why didn't you play?" If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.

Gordon Ramsay

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

John Mayer

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

John Legend

I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

John Leguizamo

I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.

John Kruk

You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!

Jim Leyland

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if theres media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

Jim Leyland

I've managed 25 years, and I can probably count on one hand players that I didn't really care for, and that's probably thousands of players that I've managed. I think that's pretty good. I love the players and I always will.

Ely Culbertson

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Emanuel Ax

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

Ellen Hopkins

I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.

Joel Miller

Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.

Jimmy Hill

He [Beckham] has two feet, which a lot of players don't have nowadays.

Jimmy Rollins

The bottom line is just that Rickey Henderson was my favorite player. His flair, his style-the key word is impact-he's an impact player.

Jimmy Page

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

Jim Thome

Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.

Lou Lamoriello

I would like to accept this recognition on behalf of all the staff members that that I’ve been associated with; all of the office people behind the scenes who never get credit and make this game so great along with the great coaches and players.

Manu Ginobili

I learned how to play against players better than me.

T. Harv Eker

Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything. If you want to be a great golfer, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be a great piano player, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be truly happy, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be rich, you can learn how to do it. It doesn't matter where you are right now. It doesn't matter where you're starting from. What matters is that you are willing to learn.

Suzi Quatro

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

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.