Quotes About Influence

Baseball has all the money.

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

We couldn't get enough of American rock 'n' roll. We'd hear it when we played American air bases in the U.K.

If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

You do see very few English players going abroad and those that do are largely good players otherwise they wouldn't have gone, but I feel a lot of their downfall is in the language. On the pitch you can learn the different basics of 'left,' 'right' and 'behind you' but off the pitch you want to have that influence around the team.

We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

People will come up to me and want to take pictures with me because I'm Lauren's husband, and not a basketball player.

My mom listened to a lot of house music. My dad listened to a lot of roots and dub. I've got a lot of bass. It's been in my whole life.

I started taking the bass more seriously when I heard Jaco Pastorius.

Today, somewhere in America, there's a kid who's got a laptop and a guitar and a couple of his friends he's putting together to play drums and bass, who's gonna change the way we say things, the way that we dress, the way we view things, the music we hear, everything.

In terms of how I want to influence the game, I try to have a positive effect with the ball or bat in my hand.

No batch of 10 people will have as much an influence on the company as those first 10 people.

If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened.

I acted in 'Oomakkuyil' under Balu Mahendra's baton.

I was a rock star. I was the president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

My parents are both artists, they had a theater company in the Bay Area for a long time called Virago. I never really had a choice - when I was two years old, I was the baby in a play that they did, and it kind of just happened naturally.

I wouldn't be the person I am today without Roddy White. He's helped teach me how to be a man.

It's like you're waiting on the world to change, but I'm actually living it, because I wonder: If there was a DragCon when I was a child or even a search engine or 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' maybe my father would have been different. Maybe our relationship now wouldn't be different.

If people love 'TVD' in 20 years the way they still love 'Buffy' today - on its 20th anniversary - I will be happy.

That would be nice, to become more of a leader in the team.

I just want to be real and who I am. That's something I'd feel comfortable with any little girl looking up to, so that's who I try to be.

I try to be real positive because I know I'm being listened to, and I have a responsibility.