All Quotes

I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.
‐‐ John Travolta

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Beart

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
‐‐ Joe Torre

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.
‐‐ Peter Shilton

I played for a lot of teams in my career, and I check all their results every Saturday, or at least the ones who haven't gone bust. But it's always Hearts first. They're the club who've really seeped into me.
‐‐ Drew Busby

I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control.
‐‐ Monte Irvin

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
‐‐ Janis Ian

I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.
‐‐ Pele

I played French horn, and I certainly do miss it. I miss it. I wish I had the time to keep up with it. It's like exercising: You have to keep it up, especially the muscles in your lips to deal with the French horn.
‐‐ Chuck Todd

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.
‐‐ Todd English

I played golf all over Detroit.
‐‐ Smokey Robinson

I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.
‐‐ Stephanie Szostak

I played golf for 25 years before I made a hole-in-one of any kind. I was on the tour for years before it finally happened. Eventually I made 23, but boy, that first one was a long time coming. It was the price I paid for not shooting at every flag.
‐‐ Billy Casper

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.
‐‐ Donald Trump

I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.
‐‐ Johnny Marr

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
‐‐ Michael Imperioli

I played guitar when I was a kid a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.
‐‐ Matt Ross

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.
‐‐ Lyle Lovett

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
‐‐ Harvey Korman

I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
‐‐ Phil Jackson

I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I'd be a golfer.
‐‐ David Hearn

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.
‐‐ Paul Wesley

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.
‐‐ Tom Scholz

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
‐‐ Mickey Spillane

I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.
‐‐ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself - I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and soccer was everywhere.
‐‐ Hope Solo

I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.
‐‐ Randy Pausch

I played in 'From the Earth to the Moon,' working with Tom Hanks. He is a great guy, very smart.
‐‐ Tom Verica

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.
‐‐ David Cassidy

I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.
‐‐ Bill Laimbeer

I played in Kent's triumphant Second XI Trophy final team last season, ironically against Hampshire 2nds at the Rose Bowl last September, finishing with 2-17 off six overs.
‐‐ James Hibberd

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.
‐‐ Stan Getz

I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.
‐‐ Courtney Barnett

I played in ska bands and like all kinds of music.
‐‐ Bria Skonberg

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes.
‐‐ Bobby Keys

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.
‐‐ Suzy Bogguss

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.
‐‐ Chris Webber

I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.
‐‐ Charlie Adam

I played in three countries. I played in two World Series. But I never found anything to match the joy and the laughter those years with the Eagles brought me. The city and county loved us.
‐‐ Monte Irvin

I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It's like everything is based around the blues, no matter what the groove is.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg

I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.
‐‐ Lauren Worsham

I played Joseph in 'Joseph & The Technicolor Dreamcoat,' which was a bit silly because I am a girl. I wanted to be the narrator, but I had fun with it anyway.
‐‐ Eliza Doolittle

I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.
‐‐ Grace Gummer

I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.
‐‐ Marcia Gay Harden