Quotes About Connection

The Internet, as a platform, I think is really fantastic.

I hope people know that when I'm sitting there, it's not some guy on a desk on a platform with sort of this voice-of-God approach.

I'm on Instagram more than any other social platform.

Technology has been the great equalizer: you can find your audience, you can build your brand, and the people that are into you, great. They're going to follow you to whatever platform you go to.

There's something so great about platonic intimacy.

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

I want my son to never know the mommy who would rather watch him play basketball than play with him.

I can be a friend from a million miles away. I can play basketball in China. The only thing I can't do is be a father. I missed my kids' first basketball game. I missed birthdays. I can talk to you from a million miles away, but I was missing the dad part of life.

There's a rich family culture in South Central. The block that I grew up on, all the kids were best friends. They hung out at each other's houses. I can knock on the person's house two doors down and grab some food and just hang out or go into the backyard and play basketball when they're not there.

Football is a simple game. It is not difficult to play football: just pass the ball around.

It's one of the reasons you play football, to make people happy.

I've seen other people grow up and not have respect for human beings. But even though I play football, I'm still able to talk to everyone on the estate. Whenever I go, I can literally talk to anyone that I meet and everyone I have known from my past.

When you - when you play golf with somebody, you spend four hours or more walking with somebody, usually, you learn something about them that you didn't know before.

I invite a lot of my friends to some of the performances that I do locally, and some of them know that I'm involved with music, but they're not quite sure how. And so it's kind of fun to play golf with a lot of my friends and then invite them to hear me sing once in a while.

You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

I made one rule for myself, and I really try to live it: Play music you love, with people you love, for people you love. If I can't be that kind of musician, I'll drive a cab.

I started to play music again because of my dad and my mom. I grew up playing guitar with my dad, and he and my mom encouraged me to start again.

Children basically need one thing: to be played with.

My dad - Gaby Yala - played for the Congo national team as well, at Under-21 level. When I see him playing, even today, I could see he's got something about him.

I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many years.

I'm grateful that as part of the Ernie Ball family, I'm able to connect with my fans in such a meaningful way and hopefully inspire guitar players to up their game!

When I was doing 'NBA Inside Stuff' and 'NBA on NBC', I always saw my interactions with players as a conversation.