#playing

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#basketball #because #championship #disease #i

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#because #best #best way #continues #earth

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#feeling #getting #home #i #i do

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#certainly #conscious #found #i #man

I really do not think about 'Oh, right now I have to defend those points and this title.' I just really want to enjoy playing on the court, in front of the fans. ↗

— Li Na

#court #defend #enjoy #fans #front

I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#find #had #i #i tried #playing

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#create #determining #entire #instrument #landscapes

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#bad guy #done #episode #got #guy

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. ↗

— Paul Newman

#game #look #playing #poker #sucker

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#across #america #been #between #each