Quotes About Influence

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

I was inspired by players like Pepe or Sergio Ramos because they are defenders and by someone like Cristiano Ronaldo, who is an example for any footballer.

Someone like Shane Warne played the game on and off the field really well and got into guys' heads. Even though he couldn't bounce you and hurt you physically, he was verbally aggressive and would let you know he'd get you out. He made batsmen doubt themselves. I learned from players like him and made a point of incorporating it into my own game.

One of my favorite guitar players and musicians is a guy named Jimmy Herring.

Maradona is among the best five players I've ever seen: Garrincha, Pele, Diego, Cruijff and Beckenbauer.

A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.

We wanted the freedom to be playful, to experiment and do what we felt like doing, but we were heavily affected by the success that the first record gave us.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

One of my best friends in the world is Lars Frederiksen. He plays guitar for a band called Rancid.

I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it.

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.

If you are in an Edward Albee play, you say Edward Albee is the greatest playwright of all time... If you're in an Israel Horovitz play, you say Israel Horovitz is the greatest playwright of all time.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.