I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood, and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them, and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.
That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing.
I've thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it's playing together.
I just need to be a good teammate if I don't get looks.
I don't worry too much about scoring. I worry about the assists.
I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.
I'm used to the feeling of playing in a team with high individual quality.
There's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.
It's one of those things I have been able to do - play well with my teammates and getting others involved.
To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.
I don't really have an ambition to become the Rolling Stones, or anything like that. For me, it's just playing music is kind of a transcendent, amazing gift, so when people come together and they play, I think it's a real special thing.
Andy Timmons is someone I've jammed with many times over the years, and we always have a great chemistry when playing together.
Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.
I would love to have played with David Silva.
I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.
Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point.
I just want to play and help my team all the time.
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
My older brother, he did everything. He played baseball, he played basketball. Just being able to watch him as a youngster, wanting to be like him, wanting to play on the team with him and watching those older guys in my neighborhood play sports.
I played with Baggio when I was young. I grew up with his myth, and to actually play with him was like being in a dream. I tried to hang out with him, to study how he played and to learn from him.
When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.
If they focus on me too often, somebody's going to be wide open. It's all about playing together and playing as a team.
I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.
