My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.
I really have to make sure that I'm staying true to who I am, and that I know my responsibilities to current N.B.A. players, to future N.B.A. players, to our past and retired N.B.A. Players.
Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.
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!
If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.
I was a baseball player and a football player at Stanford, so I didn't play a lot of golf in college. I really started playing a lot after I turned pro and I had some time in the off-season.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
I caught a fish with a deep voice. It was a bass.
But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.
Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.
I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.
I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
I actually wanted to be a tennis player.
I'll never be the best guitar player.
I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.
I'm not a great piano player.
I'm surrounded by great guitar players.
