When I picked athletics, I knew I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford
When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.
‐‐ Drake Bell
When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that.
‐‐ Brittany Howard
When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God.
‐‐ Mitt Romney
When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.
‐‐ Rani Mukerji
When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd
When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible.
‐‐ Yuichiro Miura
When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity, then you've just created another funny game that isn't very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor, drama, and character development.
‐‐ Doug TenNapel
When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.
‐‐ Peter Hook
When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
‐‐ J Mascis
When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'
‐‐ Tove Lo
When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.
‐‐ Ana Layevska
When I play ball, I play hardball.
‐‐ Kirstie Alley
When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.
‐‐ David Hasselhoff
When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.
‐‐ Kim Swift
When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.
‐‐ Helen Wills Moody
When I play, I don't cheat. I played for 490,000 in Berlin, and I'll play just as hard for 100.
‐‐ Dick Dale
When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
‐‐ Anna Kournikova
When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.
‐‐ Lykke Li
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
‐‐ John Fahey
When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.
‐‐ Jahangir Khan
When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.
‐‐ Chris Isaak
When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.
‐‐ Kenny G
When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse it with top 40.
‐‐ Darren Criss
When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
‐‐ Tori Amos
When I play music, I realize that it filters emotions. I believe that peoples' voices are expressed in their emotions, and I try to do the same with my music.
‐‐ Hiromi Uehara
When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.
‐‐ Venus Williams
When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.
‐‐ Drew Carey
When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage
When I play the clarinet, I am 100 percent myself. It is as if it is part of my body. I can play whatever I think. Let me just read a melody and make it as sweet as I can.
‐‐ Anat Cohen
When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'
‐‐ Robby Krieger
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne
When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.
‐‐ Andy Kindler
When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.
‐‐ Lloyd Waner
When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Katie Leclerc
When I played at Minnesota, Green Bay, those northern cities, Buffalo, they wanted to have those championship games at home. It was going to be an advantage to be there with their fans and the cold weather and all that. But when you've got a Super Bowl, and it's the two best teams, you want ideal conditions. You want to play a great game.
‐‐ Tony Dungy
When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.
‐‐ Boris Spassky
When I played Darth Maul, it sort of came from inside. I'm not saying it was natural, but I really enjoyed it, and I think I was tapping into my childhood, growing up with 'Star Wars.' And I grew up with G.I. Joe as well. Same as 'Thundercats' and 'Transformers' and 'He-Man.' And so I think it was the inner kid in me just came out.
‐‐ Ray Park
When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.
‐‐ Joe Mantegna
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
‐‐ Richard Burton
When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.
‐‐ Terry Bradshaw
When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.
‐‐ Jimi Hendrix
When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.
‐‐ Andy Serkis
When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.
‐‐ Brady Anderson
When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.
‐‐ Bruce Sutter
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.
‐‐ Ruud Gullit
When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.
‐‐ Bresha Webb
When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
‐‐ Zedd
When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?'
‐‐ Dennis Bergkamp