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

• The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Job
  • Me
  • Day

• 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
  • Played
  • Outfield

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

  

  Karen Allen
  • Healthy
  • Smoking
  • Quit

• 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
  • Up
  • Work
  • Hate

• 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

• I haven't always played nice guys. In 'Gremlins,' I was a conceited, pompous braggart, and I was a redneck chauvinist in the TV movie 'A Matter of Sex.' But I really prefer sympathetic roles.

  

  Judge Reinhold
  • Roles
  • Played
  • Prefer

• I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.

  

  Young Thug
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Close

• Intelligence is an interesting word. It is also something which, in my opinion, is misunderstood by many people. There are those who believe that we go to school to become intelligent. Or, the more experience a person has on a particular job, the more intelligent they become. This notion is not so. All knowledge is one hundred percent evenly present in all places, at all times. Aware is what you and I want to become. The more aware we become of this truth about intelligence, the better off we will be.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Job

• Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

  

  Simon Mawer
  • University
  • Managers
  • Became

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

  

  Gary Player
  • Played
  • Quit