Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's something everyone wants to be a part of.
Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.
The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.
You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time.
We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.
Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.
RFID is going to get its technical embedding time it needs as serious players are not going to get involved on a sufficient scale with something that might not work.
I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.
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.
The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
[as the players disappear into the cornfield] Eddie Cicotte: I'm melting. I'm melting. [fades away laughing] Ray Kinsella: That is so cool.
