I played fly-half in rugby, so I could influence the game, and midfield in hockey too. So it is part of my sporting DNA to want to be in the game at all times, to affect what is going on. That’s down to genetics and being ginger, I reckon. We’re special specimens.
Everybody who know Rick Ross know that, for one, I love creating music, and one of the biggest impacts we have on the game was the fact that when we came into the game, artists was waiting two to three years to put out albums. I was one of the few that put out an album every year along with two or three mixtapes.
Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
To me, the All-Star Game is just another step. I try to take all my experiences and put them together. To make the NBA was something, and then to be recognized as an All-Star – although I don’t consider myself a star. I see myself as just trying to reach my potential as B. J.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
‘The Man Who Never Was,’ by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant – incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
When you are on the floor, there’s no better feeling than when your teammates are into the game on the bench and are cheering for you and vice versa. When you come out of the game, you are cheering for those guys that are on the floor.
Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
Time flies. It seems like just yesterday I was playing my first game against Ireland, when I came off the bench, full of energy and flying into tackles, even though I couldn’t tackle back then.
People can say what they want, but at the end of the day, I’m going to keep working on my game. I always know I have things to work on.
I don’t have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.
Cricket is a team game. No individual can just say he can win it on his own.
In baseball, you have to remain calm, cool, and collected. In football, you can let out a little anger sometimes. It was a fun game, and I liked it, but I knew in my heart I was going to play baseball.
I may go so far as saying LeBron James may be the greatest player to ever play the game. Because he is so potent offensively that not only can he score at will, but he keeps everybody involved.
Latency is very important when you think about autonomous cars and things like that – 5G will really change the game, and I think will be another spike of growth in the wireless industry.
The rap game without me would be like woofers without bass.
You have to develop your whole game to completion.
To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It’s often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It’s the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
The most important thing is to stay down to earth and keep concentrating on the next game.
I’ve never seen ‘Game of Thrones.’ I’ve never seen ‘Breaking Bad.’ I can’t tell you one character outside of Walter White.
To put on the pinstripe – it’s extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.
No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game.
Every game gives you a new challenge, and new problems to solve.
How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the position you were in. Whenever something happened, I’d freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that’s your decision.
It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
Doesn’t matter what people say, doesn’t matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.
Winning is the deodorant of the game, it covers all bad smells.
Sometimes, the hardest things are just the simple things. Basically, get out of your own head and just go play the game you know how to play.
I don’t know if a lot of players can actually say they played in the All-Star Game in their actual city, their team’s city.
If you’re in the game long enough, you’re going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you’ll be toast.
Because football is an emotional game, it’s full of feeling, and that’s why we try to train with a smile on our face. At the same time, we work very hard, but it’s a fine line, and you’ve got to try and get that balance right if you can.
Unfortunately, injuries are part of the game and you have to adapt, keep faith, trust and never give up.
You’ve got to go out there and play the game the way it’s supposed to be played. Then you get people to like you and appreciate your work by just going out there and competing every down. Jerry Rice was looked at in that perspective. He went out there and was a hard-working guy. He was going to give it his all.
You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
It’s what you work for and grind for. Just to get out there and play the game and try to help your team to win. And in doing that, you just help yourself.
I remember I’d be sleeping in the airport at 5 o’clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.
When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.
I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.
You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.
The shirt doesn’t win you the game.
T20 is a game where you must expect the unexpected.
I just serve big and play big. That’s my game style.
I would love to be a coach, mentor, or a batting consultant. I would love to commentate in Hindi, as most people who watch the game are more comfortable with Hindi in India rather than English.
I believe that filmmaking – as, probably, is everything – is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you’ve got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.
It’s one thing to make the big leagues, but it’s another thing to make it to an all-star game.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
My all-time favorite movie is ‘He Got Game.’
