Playing Quotes
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It’s really interesting, I tailor the set to the place we’re playing and to the audience we’re playing to. There’s a certain formula of songs that have to be included that are expected, but I don’t go changing it up, I think if you give the audience the songs that they want and then give them something unexpected, it’s a great situation for the audience, but also a great situation for the band.
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Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.
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We just wanted to be successful enough to have another record. We went from playing bars in front of three people to selling out Madison Square Garden, all on our first record. We were surprised at how successful it was, and we still are.
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Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
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I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
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Everyone is expecting something in each game I'm playing. I don't have to score in every game, but I want to do my best. I want to give everything for the club, for my teammates, and myself also.
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I enjoy playing football with my three older brothers Rick, Ryan and Bobby.
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When you are playing, it is so hard to think about what life will be like after football. I understand. When you are playing, and you are young, you think you can play your whole life. You think it will never change. But it will change. You can't play forever. No one can.
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You know that you have to keep winning to keep playing.
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I love the game and I wanted to continue playing. It came to a time that I had to stop.
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I didn't understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Every day in my life, I learned something new from somebody.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.
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There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.
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You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
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We want our main guys to start playing now. You'll see some different looks.
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I think central to what we do is thinking about what's our role, how does this idea of being a band and getting on the stage and playing stuff.
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When I was playing in Seattle and Orlando, I did a lot of work with the Ronald McDonald House. I've always had a special thing for kids, and I know how important it is for kids to have good role models. They push us to that next level.
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I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.
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I loved being in the studio, writing songs and playing instruments, so it was like ‘There must be other ways to make a living in music.’”
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We're definitely a better team, everybody can see that by the way we're playing.
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Winning is going to cure a lot of the things that we're going through as a team, so it makes some of the little stuff seem small, like it should be. If we continue to play the way we're playing, it's going to be a real good new year for us.
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I'm going to tell Anthony he's playing Davis every night. He played very well.
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It's part of the whole process, I think. At this point, I can't see myself playing for any team but Chicago. But it's pretty much out of my hands.
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Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.
