In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
Eddie Murphy

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Casey Stengel

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
Sammy Hagar

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.
LeBron James

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
Jay Leno

You never know who will win and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year.
Michael Strahan

I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.
David Morse

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.
Brian Eno

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.
Ritchie Blackmore

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
Shaquille O'Neal

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
Shaquille O'Neal

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
Ritchie Blackmore

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.
Cristiano Ronaldo

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
Ethel Merman

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
Willie Mays

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.
Keith Olbermann

Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.
Paul Pierce

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
Steve Nash

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.
Nomar Garciaparra

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
Sally Ride