Pastoral Resources

Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.

But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.

Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.

Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat.

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

I don't play the tuba.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.

When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.