Quotes About Identity

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

I don't think of myself as a lesser player.

I don't think I've ever been a fashion item, I don't think I was as a player.

I'm a different player. I'm a different person - large feet, big hands.

Sometimes it's hard for me to just be the guitar player and lose myself.

I couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.

I am not a player anymore.

At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

There are already gay players in the NFL and have been for a while.

I don't think there's been that many indigenous players in Australia.

When players come in and we talk to them about what it means to be a Miami Heat player, we point them at Udonis Haslem.

When I was playing basketball, players weren't thinking about themselves as being a brand.

Duke has had many lightning rods over the years, it's a long list of 'em, a long list of white Duke basketball players that have been lightning rods. I didn't fully understand it before I came to Duke, but obviously I do now.

Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.

When I was on the playground, people were calling me Jackie Chan.

Football's a part of me. If I'm not playing, then I'm not me.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

I'm just a lad playing for Liverpool, trying to achieve his dream, so to see a lad with my name on his shirt - when I grew up having the names of other players on my shirt - it meant a lot.

I never thought of playing for any other franchise other than CSK. Chennai is my second home. Fans here have adopted me as one of their own.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

This game has done a lot for me personally. I've said this before, football really leveled the playing field for me as a person.

I feel like, when I get a certain amount of minutes, and when the coaches allow me to be me on the court, I'm Rondo. There's no 'Playoff Rondo.'