Quotes About Reflection

I didn't want to go to college, I didn't want to play football anymore, and I kind of just goofed off for about a year and a half.

I love talking about football, and obviously I love playing football, but you may not be able to play football forever, but you can talk about it for a long time.

The world is not going to come to an end because I'm not going to play football anymore.

I always had my guitar; I worked at writing some songs. I always played music - in the house. I sang to my daughters, I scribbled down some ideas. Actually I didn't always play music. I did leave it alone for some time too.

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

I played until 37-years-old and my last three or four years I learnt the most.

Losing the Ashes was intense and emotional. My personal lack of results and contribution through that series played havoc in my mind.

If I play a bad game, I know I played a bad game. If I play a good game, I know I played a good game. So I don't need anyone to tell me if I did good or bad - because I know it.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.

In Italy I have learnt a lot, I have matured both as a man and as a player. I have lived the best years of my career here.

I am not a player anymore.

I play along myself, even though I can't help the player. So I can't say what I think the answer might be. But I'll be playing in my head, while they are.

It's hard for me to come up with a plan and hold my players accountable until I self-evaluate and hold myself accountable.

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.

I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.

The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.

Basketball is my first love. If my health had permitted me, I would still be playing, but I am glad in retrospect that everything happened the way it did.

I accept I am going to miss playing because it's such an important part in my life. It's going to be difficult to fill that gap. Life goes on.

Playing games and watching film, I've been able to see the improvements I can make and how much better I can be. It's exciting to think about it.