Brad Faxon Quotes

It's a great finish. As a player, there aren't many times when you get more nervous than hitting that second shot into 16, hitting to that island green on 17 and hitting that tee shot on 18.

Brad Faxon

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• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Player
  • Same

• The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Player

• I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Done
  • Game
  • Control

• People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Why
  • Career

• I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Start
  • New York
  • Finish

• It's natural to get nervous about anything you care about.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • You
  • Care
  • Nervous

• After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fight

• I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Country
  • Home
  • Player

• I go to the hamam and put henna on my skin and hair. Even when I go to New York, I let the shower run hot to create a steam hamam at my hotel. But when I finish with the bath, I put on expensive French creams.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Hair
  • New York
  • Finish

• The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Player
  • Wall
  • Media

• As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Think
  • Words
  • Nervous

• When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Want
  • Never
  • Finish

• Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Black
  • Player
  • Win

• School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Music
  • Player
  • Piano

• No band is special, no player royalty.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Band
  • Player

• I’m a confident player, I know I can score. I don’t think anyone can guard me consistently off the dribble. But I’m a team player.

  

  Chamique Holdsclaw
  • Team
  • Player
  • Confident

• We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over and make room for new stakeholders, new players, and new leaders of many kinds. Nobody in Charge, drawing on the learnings of a wise and widely experienced public executive, offers some priceless insights into how things have changed, where they are now, and where we may be going next in this bewildering terrain.

  

  Walter Truett Anderson
  • Different
  • Moving
  • Player

• I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Reading
  • Problem
  • Advice

• It's a great finish. As a player, there aren't many times when you get more nervous than hitting that second shot into 16, hitting to that island green on 17 and hitting that tee shot on 18.

  

  Brad Faxon
  • Player
  • Nervous
  • Finish