Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano.
I have respected every manager I have played under, but if you can't learn from someone like Mark Hughes, it is going to be hard for you.
I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.
I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.
My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.
It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.
For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.
The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.
You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
