Play Quotes - Page 296

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion

But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat

The bad thing about the [tennis] calendar is how it is made and obligates you to play tournaments all year. If you want to achieve the most you can (and) go as high up (in the rankings) as you can, you have to play from the start to the finish because there are important tournaments from the beginning to the end.

The US player Andy Roddick reaches speeds of 220 kilometers per hour when he serves. If I train with him every day, I will later be at an advantage against a player whose service crosses the net at 190 kilometers per hour.

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics.

As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me 'the special one!'

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.

I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

With [Samuel] Eto'o, I talked a lot about his great career and how I could become a better player.

[Didier] Drogba sent me a text message after I won the African Player of the Year award. It made me very happy.

[ Won the 2015 African Player of the Year]meant everything to me. It was the first time a footballer from Gabon was elected Africa's Footballer of the Year. Even for the Bundesliga, it was something no African player had ever achieved. It still makes me incredibly proud and the happiest person on the planet.

A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.