Player Quotes - Page 23

• I was a guitar player first off.

  Boz Scaggs

  Guitar, Firsts, Guitar Player

  7 Copy quote

• I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

  Rick Derringer

  Guitar, People, Way

  7 Copy quote

• And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

  James Iha

  Guitar, Records, Able

  10 Copy quote

• I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

  Tom Verlaine

  Guitar, Sound, Records

  52 Copy quote

• As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.

  Richie Sambora

  Song, Guitar, Listening

  27 Copy quote

• If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.

  Russell Malone

  Funny, Inspiring, Team

  4 Copy quote

• Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

  Ford Frick

  Yelling, Fingers, Pointing

  7 Copy quote

• I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Confidence, Games

  8 Copy quote

• I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

  Lynn Swann

  Faith, Sports, Christian

  8 Copy quote

• My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Sports, Inspiration, Games

  4 Copy quote

• We want playing our games to entertain people on many different levels. Deeper down, I want to make a connection with the player, and it's the way, to me, of saying to the person playing the game that they're not alone in the world.

  Tim Schafer

  Playing Games, People, Connections

  11 Copy quote

• Gaming has kind of evolved a bit. More people play on portable devices. Where we might go in the future, we'll see. Customers love games. I'm not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger.

  Tim Cook

  Playing Games, Apples, People

  "Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Hot Seat at D". Interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, allthingsd.com. May 29, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Thinking, Piano

  7 Copy quote

• First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

  Dan Fouts

  Sports, Ideas, Honor

  7 Copy quote

• The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players.

  Roger Milla

  Team, Egypt, Order

  84 Copy quote

• Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.

  Helen Wills

  Two, Competition, Tournaments

  HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I see a tough time for our cricket. Senior players will establish records and go home, but our cricket will struggle. Young players aren't playing with the freedom that they should enjoy. The selectors and the cricket board should take responsibility for that.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  Senior, Struggle, Home

  4 Copy quote

• I am excited about it. No-one really knows him [Kumar Sangakkara] as a person and everyone is looking forward to that. Getting to know players like Amla, Ponting and Smith has been special and this is great, because he [Sangakkara] is here for two years, it's no flash in the pan.

  Jason Roy

  Years, Sri Lanka, Two

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

  Kurt Masur

  Speaks Out, People, Orchestra

  15 Copy quote

• The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

  Brian May

  Albums, Orchestra, Nine

  8 Copy quote

• I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.

  Andy Pick

  Two Sides, Energy, Four

  10 Copy quote

• There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

  John Fogerty

  Guitar, Guy, Trying

  6 Copy quote

• We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.

  Peter Bondra

  Ice, Games, Umpires

  13 Copy quote

• I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Baseball, Jobs, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Winning, Coaching

  4 Copy quote