#players

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #believe #charlie #close #columbia

Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#against #because #become #believe #best

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#because #control #cue #game #get

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#bonding #certain #certain level #football #football players

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#challenge #challenges #come #excellence #go

I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#collectors #correspondence #distributor #get #go

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#control #determined #even #everyone #five

I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#five #i #i can #i feel #last

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me. ↗

— John Entwistle

#bass players #get #guitarist #i #like

I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#both #eyes #fights #frustrating #game