#aye

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#coming #distractions #football #footballers #get

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. ↗

— Walter Becker

#best #better #blues #influences #jazz

Let your playerhaters be your motivators. ↗

— Alberta Parish

#motivation #playerhaters #motivational

I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living. ↗

— Johnny Bench

#did #exactly #horny #i #into

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field. ↗

— Johnny Bench

#clubhouse #era #field #forward #going

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine. ↗

— Joan Bennett

#england #had #leigh #mine #only

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up. ↗

— George Benson

#future #gives #going #good #guitar

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. ↗

— Charles Bent

#desires #god #man #means #much

When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#better #bit #changes #element #get

The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#imagination