Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Glaser

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

Samuel Johnson

The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.

Safra A. Catz

Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.

Saffron Burrows

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

Sachin Tendulkar

The International Cricket Calender shouldn't be so packed with action that it drives spectators away. Also there should be enough space between cricket events to help players recharge their batteries - not just physically but mentally too.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make a decision.

Ryan Giggs

Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years.

Ryan Giggs

As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.

Ryan Giggs

I’d go for Scholesy as the club’s greatest ever player. I’ve seen him do things that no other player can do. The way he can control the tempo of games, and his range of passing, are both incredible. We’ve seen over the years that players just haven’t been able to get near him. And you can’t forget his goals either.

Ryan Giggs

I have played with some great players during my time at United but I would have to put Paul Scholes down as the best.

Ryan Adams

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

Ryan Adams

I was never much of a bass player.

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.

Tony Gonzalez

It's important to me to be a complete player.

Steve Vai

It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

Usain Bolt

Cristiano is better than Messi, without a doubt. He's more of an all-round player

Tariq Ramadan

Those organisations, al-Qaeda being the first one, have all settled in areas full of mining and oil resources or in geostrategic zones. They settled in Afghanistan which underground is filled with oil and lithium. North Mali is filled with mining resources (uranium). It is essential to question the impact and role of some international players that create or let those organisations settle there.

Steve Spurrier

I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.

Stefan Edberg

For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique.

Tony Iommi

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.

Tony Levin

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

Tony La Russa

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

Tony DiCicco

I don't blame the players, I don't blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.

Tony Dungy

I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.

Tony Dungy

There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.

Tommy Lasorda

I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.

Tommy Lasorda

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

Tom Waits

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Tom Seaver

Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the last fifteen years - the stolen base.

Steven Gerrard

The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool)

Steven Gerrard

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

Steve McClaren

He is such a great player that he has the capabilities to let no one affect his game. (on David Beckham)

Steve McClaren

We have to reduce our expectations of England and we have the players to do it