FastSaying

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.


Ricky Martin

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

My mom has a poster of (Ricky Martin).
ARIYA TAFOLLA Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
MALUMA I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
MALUMA (It was) the first time I couldn't perform in my entire life. Took a sabbatical (but) didn't know th...
DOUG FERRARI An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937...
PHILIP WARREN ANDERSON We’d spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attracti...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
MALUMA I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters fro...
BILLY BRAGG I said I need a little more Fred Astaire and a little less Ricky Martin.
GEORGE HAMILTON So far it has had no impact. We've looked at 'time spent listening' in our industry over the last tw...
ERIK HELLUM During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.
PAUL D. BOYER The last popular song that I loved was 'Living La Vida Loca' by Ricky Martin,
ARTIE SHAW I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
JACK DEE I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I...
JOSH TURNER During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to loo...
MATTHEW STEWART Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my...
DAVID HAREWOOD I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM.
WALTER PIDGEON All my years to this moment
All my roads to this wall.
All my words to this silence
A...
CATHERINE FISHER Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.
BUFFALO BILL I don't think I'll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those [first two] re...
ANDREW BIRD Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that...
ACTION BRONSON I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my...
KATE FORSYTH My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
NORMAN GRANZ During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. ...
RICK WARREN My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recor...
TOM GLAZER I've done all my schooling at Chennai - it's always home for me. All my growing up years hav...
DULQUER SALMAAN I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonably certain would never c...
BRETT BUTLER To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listenin...
AUSTIN MAHONE The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father...
CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father...
CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG I'll probably be forced to take two days' holiday to cover my time spent waiting at the airport wast...
BOB EVANS My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over...
BRUCE VILANCH My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at...
HANK AZARIA I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not ...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-reje...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I s...
ANTHONY HOPKINS My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - cl...
GARY KEMP My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my l...
CAITLYN JENNER Sorry, I missed that. White count's been down since the Ricky Martin concert. Some cholo kicked me i...
DR. GREGORY HOUSE During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
ADA YONATH I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fair...
NATALIE BABBITT I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.
BETSY BEERS teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER We spent two weeks that I call two weeks of tears--my veil of tears.
BROCK PETERS During my stage shows, I am so energetic. It's constant! I just don't stand still. I actuall...
JESSIE J All my songs are where I am.
ADAM DURITZ I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a so...
LEAH LABELLE I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned ...
GERARD BUTLER I worked out my schedule over the past two years so all I had to complete was a thesis [at the end o...
NICK HARTIGAN I spent 20 years in Nashville and my Mom lives in Mississippi,
GARY MORRIS I am very happy at Madrid. I have two years left on my contract and I would like to finish my career...
DAVID BECKHAM I've had to change my lifestyle radically during my two-year struggle,
JOE ESZTERHAS During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with t...
JOAN BAEZ Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encom...
JASON ROBERT BROWN I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learn...
PETER ACKROYD One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I could not sit in the audience and w...
JOHN BARRYMORE I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.
JUST FONTAINE I give credit for that to all my teachers and all my choreographers, but also to myself – for list...
CHITA RIVERA I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canad...
SARA CANNING Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have ...
SAM TRAMMELL My life has never been defined as Roland Martin, CNN; Roland Martin, TVOne; or Roland Martin, 'T...
ROLAND MARTIN My breakthrough was when I began to write during my commute, at first taking notes on my Palm Pilot,...
PETER V. BRETT My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I&#...
CHRISTINA PERRI I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years...
MARAT SAFIN I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
SAMUEL ALITO Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Lan...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several...
AISHA TYLER I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.
EMILY BLUNT I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.
JIM DIAMOND I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my ...
EVEL KNIEVEL The years I spent at Pacific were some of the best of my life. I met my wife and formed lifelong fri...
JEFF BREHAUT My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best ...
KATIE FINNERAN I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town...
BETTY BUCKLEY I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craz...
BRYAN CRANSTON I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper.
CASSADEE POPE I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock,...
LAURA DERN I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead...
FELICITY JONES I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed.. . . I have sung my songs all over the ...
PAUL ROBESON When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to ...
PAUL MERTON I grew up listening to popular music. My father was a Peruvian folk singer. He played the guitar at ...
JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My main focus now is my grades. Lately, all my time is spent either on the court or sitting at home ...
ARMON JOHNSON Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's...
AURORA During all the years with Pete [Sampras], everybody would talk about the finals. I think Pete and I ...
ANDRE AGASSI I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and...
AARON RODGERS I don't want to be on the road all my life.
AARON NEVILLE My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's h...
NANDAN NILEKANI I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa...
VICTOR MITCHELL I have waited twenty-two years for this . . . I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent ther...
RAY MCGOVERN I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen...
DOVE CAMERON Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho...
HARUKI MURAKAMI My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really ...
MONTE IRVIN There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
EDWARD HOAGLAND The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down...
EL DEBARGE

More Ricky Martin

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, persevera...
RICKY MARTIN We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are strugglin...
RICKY MARTIN I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselv...
RICKY MARTIN Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell ...
RICKY MARTIN I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.
RICKY MARTIN Ignore the ignorant.
RICKY MARTIN The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Eve...
RICKY MARTIN I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbe...
RICKY MARTIN Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be prou...
RICKY MARTIN I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the wor...
RICKY MARTIN One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on...
RICKY MARTIN I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I...
RICKY MARTIN When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey...
RICKY MARTIN When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committ...
RICKY MARTIN Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the o...
RICKY MARTIN Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're bo...
RICKY MARTIN Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the messa...
RICKY MARTIN I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are conside...
RICKY MARTIN I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.
RICKY MARTIN A lot of people say, 'Wow, you're a single father of twin boys, that's crazy!' Two t...
RICKY MARTIN These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come f...
RICKY MARTIN The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.
RICKY MARTIN You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to y...
RICKY MARTIN When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist....
RICKY MARTIN I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!
RICKY MARTIN Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone fr...
RICKY MARTIN I believe Barack Obama has shown a deep conviction to help those most in need, even if their voices ...
RICKY MARTIN Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wr...
RICKY MARTIN For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and t...
RICKY MARTIN If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano inst...
RICKY MARTIN I met with great producers and composers, young people that wanted to give it all in their art, ... ...
RICKY MARTIN They will have to provide some documents to prove the relative that they are living with lives in th...
RICKY MARTIN Life, the album, came about because I believe that life is not one-dimensional,
RICKY MARTIN La vida loca, that's my life right now. I'm going through an adrenaline rush that my career is givin...
RICKY MARTIN It's tiny [his butt], what can I do?
RICKY MARTIN The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Eve...
RICKY MARTIN The country has to get together and has to do something about this. It reminds me of what happened l...
RICKY MARTIN Oh my God. When I was 12, I waited in line for four hours to get his autograph.
RICKY MARTIN She's All I Ever Had
RICKY MARTIN It's global. It's the world telling some artists they're doing a good job, because you get an award ...
RICKY MARTIN Praise You.
RICKY MARTIN I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are conside...
RICKY MARTIN I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to...
RICKY MARTIN I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with ...
RICKY MARTIN Broadway is another monster. I've been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the ...
RICKY MARTIN My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotag...
RICKY MARTIN Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by mysel...
RICKY WILLIAMS The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
RICKY WILLIAMS As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there ...
RICKY WILLIAMS As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the...
RICKY WILLIAMS A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
RICKY WILLIAMS I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the streng...
RICKY WILLIAMS When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore ...
RICKY WILLIAMS I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be p...
RICKY WILLIAMS I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to...
RICKY WILLIAMS There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something mea...
RICKY WILLIAMS One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.
RICKY WILLIAMS Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice...
RICKY WILLIAMS I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that da...
RICKY WILLIAMS To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime ...
RICKY WILLIAMS I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.
RICKY WILLIAMS There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be abl...
RICKY WILLIAMS People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.
RICKY WILLIAMS One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking ab...
RICKY WILLIAMS I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearanc...
RICKY WILLIAMS At the core, we're all spiritual beings.
RICKY WILLIAMS Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.
RICKY WILLIAMS I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.
RICKY WILLIAMS Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the...
RICKY WHITTLE I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and ...
RICKY PONTING The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin...
RICKY SKAGGS My abs were my bread and butter in the U.K. - the calendars, the photoshoots, and all that came with...
RICKY WHITTLE Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's c...
RICKY JAY It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bl...
RICKY SKAGGS Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstor...
RICKY JAY I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were...
RICKY SCHRODER I don't think anything can prepare you for the 'Strictly' experience. It really is insan...
RICKY WHITTLE I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made...
RICKY JAY I want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my lif...
RICKY PONTING They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.
RICKY NELSON Just believe in what you're doing, and keep doing it.
RICKY NELSON You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.
RICKY NELSON Country's hip; it's cool music.
RICKY SKAGGS To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
RICKY NELSON I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.
RICKY GERVAIS I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I a...
RICKY WILLIAMS I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.
RICKY SCHRODER There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famo...
RICKY GERVAIS Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our tim...
RICKY JAY The best food I've had was actually in catering at 'Single Ladies.' It's insane. I c...
RICKY WHITTLE My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to ...
RICKY SCHRODER It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. ...
RICKY SCHRODER I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with ...
RICKY SCHRODER I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white dr...
RICKY WHITTLE In all of your living, don't forget to live.
RICKY MAYE I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials...
RICKY SCHRODER I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to pract...
RICKY WILLIAMS Every collaboration with a new person is like when you take a bin of Legos and dump them on the floo...
RICKY REED I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power e...
RICKY SCHRODER It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. Ther...
RICKY SKAGGS I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good c...
RICKY WILLIAMS I love horror. I love 'The Shining,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Halloween,' all tho...
RICKY SCHRODER Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by e...
RICKY SCHRODER If you are stuck at a dead-end job, or you know your friends are bringing you down, the time to act ...
RICKY REED To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing ...
RICKY JAY I'm a big fan of old, classic American musclecars like a Shelby GT or the '69 Dodge Charger,...
RICKY WHITTLE I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters ...
RICKY SCHRODER I remember 'Rain Man' with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman with all the Lamborghinis being lif...
RICKY WHITTLE If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and H...
RICKY WILLIAMS I had big shoes to fill, but the way we have been playing has made the transition easy.
RICKY PONTING They know how important this game is and how important it is that everyone is 100 per cent fit going...
RICKY PONTING We've probably got a decent first innings total already but hopefully we can start well in the morni...
RICKY PONTING His dismissal in the second innings was exactly how we want to get him out,
RICKY PONTING She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton.'
RICKY GERVAIS We came up a little bit short with our batting but our new ball bowling was outstanding,
RICKY PONTING I think we've been a lot more disciplined with our bowling. Our batting at times has been more disci...
RICKY PONTING I suppose I grew up wishing I was an American Jew for the comedy and the one-liners. ... actress who...
RICKY GERVAIS Karl had expressed his horror in the past at the thought of a rectal examination, and I thought this...
RICKY GERVAIS I'm from a little place called England ... We used to run the world before you.
RICKY GERVAIS It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized.
RICKY GERVAIS Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
RICKY GERVAIS People see me in the suit and they know I'm not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through ...
RICKY GERVAIS No one grows up saying 'I hope I work in an office one day?' And that fascinated me. People from 16 ...
RICKY GERVAIS Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told s...
RICKY GERVAIS I'm a flawed character. I'm good at that. ... I'm your man. If you want John Wayne, forget it.
RICKY GERVAIS If you had to do just one thing (as a boss) and nothing else -- it is just be fair. I think if you a...
RICKY GERVAIS Brent was essentially an idiot who wasn't that bad but just wanted to be popular, ... whereas Andy h...
RICKY GERVAIS So what if people think 'The Office' is better than 'Extras'? I had to do them in some order.
RICKY GERVAIS They'd both tell you exactly what they wanted. 'Ashley, do this. Move the cup there. Turn round, tak...
RICKY GERVAIS The grass isn't always greener on the other side!
RICKY GERVAIS We were slapping each other's backs so hard we were red raw.
RICKY GERVAIS the sharpest beak on the block.
RICKY GERVAIS But it's the press perception of him we played with, ... Les isn't a sad, lonely man. Through no fau...
RICKY GERVAIS I don't want to use up my cachet, the number of times my fat face is on telly.
RICKY GERVAIS Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?
RICKY GERVAIS When a crab's pissed it walks forward.
RICKY GERVAIS That's exactly what it did on BBC2. The people that get onto focus groups are force-fed big, broad c...
RICKY GERVAIS It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I cou...
RICKY GERVAIS Because it was couched in realism, I think people recognized things. The more you understand somethi...
RICKY GERVAIS As long as they keep the important themes -- a job, work, a boss going through a mid-life crisis, tr...
RICKY GERVAIS We had a hit list of people we approached, ... We told them some of the ideas we had. Because we spe...
RICKY GERVAIS Why by a book when you can join a library.
RICKY GERVAIS For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and...
RICKY JAY I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.
RICKY PONTING He's not as hard on himself as he once was. He's learnt a lot about the way he has to play his crick...
RICKY PONTING Mike Hussey and Glenn McGrath's partnership on day two has been the defining moment of the test matc...
RICKY PONTING Mike Hussey and Glenn McGrath's partnership on day two has been the defining moment of the Test matc...
RICKY PONTING Mike Hussey and Glenn McGrath's partnership on day two has been the defining moment of the test matc...
RICKY PONTING 'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best.
RICKY SCHRODER We'd like to think the game would be a sell-out. We're certainly looking forward to the game.
RICKY PONTING Definitely, James has ridden exceptionally well all year, not just these last three races.
RICKY CARMICHAEL I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show, but I didn&...
RICKY SCHRODER I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. ...
RICKY PONTING To have a week off in the middle of the season feels like a lot longer I think, so I feel really goo...
RICKY PONTING I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back a...
RICKY SKAGGS I'm just proud of the way the guys came out and played. In all three phases, we played an altogether...
RICKY RAY We're nowhere near our best yet but we still came away with a good win.
RICKY PONTING That's something [director of pitching development] Dewey [Robinson] and the staff have really worke...
RICKY BENNETT They kept responding to our buckets. We just had to keep playing (hard). We got some defensive stops...
RICKY HICKMAN There's more happening in the 'papers than out on the field although there was a little bit of needl...
RICKY PONTING I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud...
RICKY WILLIAMS Bracken has got a great record here and he'll bowl well on the wicket.
RICKY PONTING He's bowling 150km/h most balls. There's a very small margin for error there.
RICKY PONTING If we can squeeze a few more runs out of the tail and then bowl well first thing in their innings it...
RICKY PONTING Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told s...
RICKY GERVAIS So hopefully we can keep him under pressure.
RICKY PONTING I guess it's disappointing for that kind of stuff to be coming out now,
RICKY PONTING We played very well this week, and it was a good team performance. But I'm not sure if the West Indi...
RICKY PONTING We're out there appealing every time we think something's out. I don't think there is anything wrong...
RICKY PONTING I think there's a good chance that Glenn will be OK.
RICKY PONTING Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really fe...
RICKY PONTING There was only one person in charge on the field and that was me,
RICKY PONTING That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I ...
RICKY JAY My friends said I was crazy, but L.A. is the hub of the industry. It's the epicenter of the busi...
RICKY WHITTLE If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going ...
RICKY SCHRODER I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very...
RICKY JAY I didn't think it would be very special. Coming back to a franchise, an organization that I worked f...
RICKY WILLIAMS You know why beads were started, don't you? ... They were used to count your prayers.
RICKY WILLIAMS It is the intention for the Makars' Court to grow and develop as the Scottish national literary monu...
RICKY HENDERSON We're just trying to pick the best team for this game, first and foremost, but he's a young bloke wh...
RICKY PONTING Around the team I would have thought I have done most things right along the way,
RICKY PONTING I felt like I started pretty well and probably got worse as the innings went on,
RICKY PONTING It does look like a good wicket. I think it'll be a fairly traditional Sydney cricket wicket. It'll ...
RICKY PONTING It is always nice to win a series. We had lot of pressure in both games. Andrew and Clarke played we...
RICKY PONTING As an individual, if you are not playing as well as you like, you are always putting a bit more pres...
RICKY PONTING Jason just has to keep positive, keep working hard,
RICKY PONTING It's been mentally draining. The emotions have been up and down all day but I'm feeling pretty good ...
RICKY PONTING This England side [2004-5] have a different feel to them. They have a bit of a winning habit and win...
RICKY PONTING We were confident of going close -- maybe not as close as it was in the end.
RICKY PONTING Even though we've lost this game, I think we can take away as much from this game as England can. Th...
RICKY PONTING It hurt him a lot not taking part in the last test match so he will be pretty keen to prove everybod...
RICKY PONTING We're saying all the right things in our team meetings,
RICKY PONTING We bit the bullet early on day one and decided to bat on that wicket, knowing it will get a bit lowe...
RICKY PONTING It was a little bit of a thing we had to clear up from today. It wasn't an incident. There were a fe...
RICKY PONTING He's had a pretty solid workout this morning and did a lot of running between the wickets in the net...
RICKY PONTING We are looking at those areas, as we always do, to look for little ways that we can improve ourselve...
RICKY PONTING I wouldn't like to think that anybody is playing for their career in this game, certainly that hasn'...
RICKY PONTING I have never been one who has sat back and taken all the accolades when the team has gone well. I th...
RICKY PONTING I still rank England second,
RICKY PONTING He smashed my chin. That didn't feel too good.
RICKY PROEHL