As a kid, I was a little self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone. A bad habit of mine used to be slouching. Eventually, I realized my height was something I couldn't control, so I might as well accept it. I've certainly turned it into a positive, because without my height I probably wouldn't be as good of a tennis player. It's a gift, and I've made something of it.
Paolo Maldini is someone I loved at AC Milan and looked up to as a player. I think he had so much about him. He had so much quality and he was a player I looked to growing up. Him and Tony Adams - another footballer who's won it all.
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.
If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on many sites you watch together with the computer and the pleasure is gone.
For some reason as a kid growing up in Lubbock, Texas, I always thought I was going to go to UCLA. I think it was because they had such great sports teams, and it was in California, where the actors were. But even though I was talking about being an actor when I was young, I was first going to be a football player. My dream was "I'm going to go to UCLA and be a football player. "
A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the reader is the player so the engagement with the material is always more fundamental and dynamic. Reading comics is a much less passive activity than consuming CDs and DVDs.
I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.
I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly.
I'm not nearly as much of a fan of the NBA as I was maybe 10 or 15 years ago, or certainly as I was when I was a player. It's become more entertainment focused, and less focused on the purity of the game.
Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
It's amazing what the sight of four gentlemen with red crosses on their backs can to injured players.
The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.
I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain year.
I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.
It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.
If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.
Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player. " That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player. " How can you tell?" It's PIPING hot!" Then blow on it first!