Gary Player Quotes

Arnie played 50 years and quit, so maybe I'll play 51 and hang it up.

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• I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Poetry
  • Quit

• I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Quit
  • Everest
  • Mount Everest

• I would love to have played Gollum.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Played
  • Would

• Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Up
  • Live
  • Friend

• I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Played

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Old
  • Grow
  • Quit

• There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Forever
  • Years
  • Stones

• The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Style
  • Natural
  • Played

• I have decided to quit as I.P.L. Chairman. It is a decision which I was pondering over for some time.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Quit

• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater

• I pitched and I played the outfield.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Outfield

• I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

  

  Karen Allen
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  • Smoking
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• I've played soccer since I was five.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Soccer
  • Played
  • Five

• If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

  

  Dave Brubeck
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• I just wasn't picked. I'm not bitter. I'm not mad. It just means I'll get to spend more time with my wife and kids over the next three summers. I still hope they bring back the gold. I'm just honored to have played before.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Hope

• We felt we needed to come back home and get this win. It was a much-needed win after last night. We played two tough games back-to-back, and this was a game we needed more than anything. Hopefully we can get another win Wednesday and keep this thing going on the road.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Home
  • Game
  • Night

• I always thought that I played better when I was the captain. If you look at my record during the six years I was captain - except for a couple of series - I did very well.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • Couple
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  • Record

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Up
  • Happy
  • House

• Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Thieves
  • Theft

• When I'm working, it's those actors (you know who you are) who sit around moaning that their trailer isn't big enough, or how bad their facilities are. I can't be doing with any of that, I just like to get on with it.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Bad
  • Enough
  • Who You Are

• Arnie played 50 years and quit, so maybe I'll play 51 and hang it up.

  

  Gary Player
  • Played
  • Quit