#layers

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#decline #i #imagine #judged #made

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too. ↗

— Rick Danko

#bass players #i #like #lot #players

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them. ↗

— Antonio Davis

#business #business sense #going #got #hope

I don't give players a chance to hit me. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#give #hit #i #me #players

One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible. ↗

— Thomas Dooley

#club #develop #everything #i #in the beginning

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#classy #decision-making #deliberate #family #lot

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#come #diving #give #give me #hungry

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. ↗

— Gordie Howe

#bilingual #english #hockey #hockey players #key players

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#beautiful #big #big hair #competitive #day

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#drawn #existence #footloose #go #grab