#arte

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#because #game #i #joke #knew

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#brought #came #dave #days #door

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#by the time #completely #cultural #different #dynamic

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#down #every #feeling #five #had

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did. ↗

— Jo Brand

#arose #comedy #did #down #fancied

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#age #although #becoming #college #coming

My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog? ↗

— Edie Falco

#afford #after #any #artists #burden

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#drinking #first #marvelous #personality #place

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood. ↗

— George Brett

#blood #day #i #kind #like

I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#bigger #cross #go #horses #i