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“I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.”

Inspirational Years Sports Basketball Six Seven Track Soccer Ran Softball

Author:Gabrielle Union

“I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel lousy and lazy, and my instincts were not working as they should.”

Feels Should Sports Eating Understood Instinct Lazy Fast Food Slowing Eating Fast Food

Author:Wilmer Valderrama

“I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.”

Want Acting Caught Bores Broadway Bugs Jimmy

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.”

Years Play Kids Games Team Streets College Son Picks Decided Let Me Parks My Son Hockey Backup Lacrosse Goalies Hockey Team Riverside

Author:John Katzman

“I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close.”

Badass Macs

Author:Kobe Bryant

“I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of a community but to do it in my own way.”

Way Wells Felt Sports Community My Own Team Sports Team

Author:Tony Hawk

“I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.”

People Faces Girl Lines Roles Adults Casts Definitions High Definition

Author:Selma Blair

“I played teen roles until high definition came out.”

Roles Definitions High Definition

Author:Selma Blair

“I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.”

Years Age Century Ten Injury Twentieth Century Rugby Allergic Playing Rugby

Author:Nigel Melville

“I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.”

Years Lasts Film Roles Five Tvs Five Years Last Five Years

Author:Sherry Stringfield

“I played the British Open in 1937. It took a week to get there and a week to get home. I was the low American; finished fourth or fifth. And what it came down to was, I lost a good part of my summer, won $185, and spent $1,000 on boat fare alone.”

Home Lost Week Summer Lows British Finished Boat Fourth Fifth

Author:Byron Nelson

“I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.”

Real Father Five Nice Mines Ten Twenties Guitar Twenty Five Fourteen Carolina North Carolina Durham

Author:James Taylor

“I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did not care if it was about taxes or about, you know, getting rid of the penny, it was all about me being in love with him.”

Ifs Knows Character Care Knowing Fronts Scene Taxes Percent Boss Bus Being In Love Pennies Knocked Down

Author:Janel Moloney

“I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.”

Ifs Has Beens Passion Discipline My Sister Could Have Been Violin Clarinet

Author:Sara Zarr

“I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.”

Hard Play School Left Band Toronto

Author:Jake Epstein

“I played the game for 20 years, and I think that kept me on the football field, being adjusted. Getting hit so many times, being all out of whack, and going in to see my chiropractor kept me back on the football field.”

Thinking Years Games Fields Football Football Field

Author:Jerry Rice

“I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.”

Way Games Sports Ability One Way Hustle

Author:Wade Boggs

“I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.”

Years Ten Weapons Guitar I Realized

Author:Pete Townshend

“I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.”

Ifs Knows Kids Jobs Like You Mom Ridiculous What If Spy

Author:Carla Gugino

“I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.”

Men States School Military New York Huge Organs Buttons Pipe Gadgets New York State Military School Pipe Organs

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I played the Piccadilly Theater with "Gypsy" and also the Old Vic, and I've done other shows in London, but not for 40 years.”

Years Done Shows Theater London Gypsy

Author:Angela Lansbury

“I played the tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the Open the next year, told the same jokes, and everybody laughed like hell.”

Years Next Hell Jokes Laughed Next Year

Author:Lee Trevino

“I played the track 'Exciter' backwards and suggested to the judge that what he'd heard was, 'I asked her for a peppermint. I asked her to get me one'. When the judge heard it, his eyes lit up. It was as if he realized how ridiculous the whole thing was.”

Ifs Whole Eye Heard Judging Track Ridiculous His Eyes Backwards Lit Peppermint

Author:Rob Halford

“I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.”

Thinking Bits Trumpets

Author:Boris Vian

“I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?”

People Play Wanted School Laughing Effects Band Members High School Marching Band Tubas School Band

Author:Patti LuPone

“I played the wrong wrong notes.”

Notes

Author:Thelonious Monk

“I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.”

Home Young Boys Sweet Alabama Josh Sweet Home

Author:Dakota Fanning

“I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old Vic in London and we were at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and I walked on stage and I've got an opening speech that begins: "Agamemnon, how if he had boils?" And I went on and said: "Agamemnon..." And a woman in the front row just went 'tut'. I thought: "I've only done four syllables, give us a chance!" I got one word out and the audience were already tutting. It was worse than any heckle I ever had doing comedy. So, I'll stick to gnomes.”

Ifs Giving Said Done Running Remember Chance Audience Comedy Four Stage Fronts Speech Towns Sticks Starting London Theatre Opening One Word Syllables Gnome Agamemnon Give Us A Chance

Author:Matt Lucas

“I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.”

Character Action Fun Workout Animated

Author:Geena Davis

“I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.”

School Three Sports Football Basketball High School Baseball

Author:Calvin Pryor

“I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.”

Musical Theatre Broadway Ruthless Denmark Denver

Author:Annaleigh Ashford

“I played to 20,000 people every day because people were walking on 5th Ave going to and from their jobs, and my sounds were bathing them in all kinds of dissonance, consonance, resonance, and things like that.”

People Kind Jobs Sound Walking All Kinds Resonance Bathing Dissonance Consonance

Author:Charlemagne Palestine

“I played to win. When I was a child, my brothers and I played cowboys and Indians in the park, and I was always an Indian who got captured. That was a learning experience; they were showing me that as a woman I was going to be captured. But in a metaphorical sense, I think I did eventually become a cowboy.”

Thinking Children Winning Education Learning Brother Indian My Brother Parks Cowboy Captured Learning Experience Metaphorical

Author:Ita Buttrose

“I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.”

School High School Chess Grades Fifth Tournaments Fifth Grade

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.”

Littles Two Practice Week Grades Two Weeks Trumpets Sixth Grade Faking It

Author:Wendell Pierce

“I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.”

School Middle Trumpets Middle School Braces Playing Drums

Author:Brendon Urie

“I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.”

School Boys Band Cute Trumpets Cute Boy

Author:Skylar Grey

“I played under many Captains, but Dhoni is the one, who fulfilled my Dream of winning World Cup”

World Dream Winning Cups Fulfilled Captains World Cup Dhoni

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“I played until my lips gave out on cigarettes and thoughts of you.”

Poetry Sadness Depression Heartbreak Thoughts Thoughts On Life Breaking Up Sadness Quotes Cigarettes

Author:Ben Ditmars

Source: Mirrored Voices: Best Modern Poets

“I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.”

Knows Writing Years Play Bigs Wanted Leader Band Smoke Tunes Fascinating Bass Charlie Pipe Old You Glasgow

Author:Jack Bruce

“I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.”

Inspirational Years Funny Four Basketball Track Tall Four Years Stressed Volleyball Stressed Out

Author:Bridgette Wilson

“I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.”

Ifs Knows Littles Jobs Bits Know How Pieces Fronts Little Bit Notes Eight Stuck Supposed To Be Timing Chords Violin Thirteen

Author:Petra Haden

“I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.”

Years Greater Volleyball

Author:Summer Altice

“I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.”

Thinking Player Basketball

Author:Oscar Robertson

“I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.”

Years Age Wonder Summer Wonder Years

Author:Danica McKellar

“I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.”

People Firsts Fronts Standing Idiot Grades

Author:Jon Hamm

“I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.”

Knows Halls Linked Steroid

Author:Pete Rose

“I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed.”

Masters Died Everlasting Request Reeds Dwight Dwight Eisenhower

Author:Arnold Palmer

“I played with a left hamstring injury since playing college football at Washington University. I went to doctors all over the country to find out what was wrong, and none of them could figure out the problem in my hamstring. I went to Drs. Baker and they found a huge knot in my hamstring. They were able to release it and fix my hamstring problem.”

Country Problem Able Found Left Figures Football College Huge Doctors University Release Injury Drs Knots Bakers College Football Hamstrings

Author:Corey Dillon

“I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.”

Wells Play Sports Responsibility Player Pressure

Author:Mark Messier

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