What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.
The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar.
My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out.
If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me.
A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to...
You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.
I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.
Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.
The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.
The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.