Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.
But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.
You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.
I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.
Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.
I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.
I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.
Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.
So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.
The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.
The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.
First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.
Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.
There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
I tell anyone who asks me - Scholes is the best English player.
Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength... all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!
My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.
You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!
