Bashing Quotes

I`ve never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I`ve always played with other musicians. It`s how I play, there`s no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

I wanted to do as much of the action work as I could, so that the audience can see it`s me and it`s real. I feel like I became a sportsman of sorts, and that meant acquiring injuries and carrying on and bashing through to the next level of pain. Although the stunt team did fantastic work to make sure that everything was as safe as possible, if you don`t get bruised playing Bond, you`re not doing it properly. I had black eyes, I had cuts, I was bruised, I had muscle strains, and I took a lot of painkillers. But it was part of the job. As much as I was hurt, the stuntmen were in much more pain.

I`ve learned to not take media criticism personally, ... Seven or eight years ago, I would have said `I hate the media; there are people in it who are always bashing me.` Now I understand that, when someone writes something negative about me, it`s part of the game. Media criticism will destroy you if you take it personally, so now I play with it. I stay away from politics. Some people criticize me for that, but it`s a choice I`ve made. I have my views, but politics can be very sensitive. I`ve struggled so hard to get fans and people behind me for what I want to accomplish that it would be a mistake to support one party publicly and have the other party against me.

The scheme`s got to fit your players. My thing is bashing running backs. That`s what I want to get back to, just having fun and letting them deal with me. That`s what the 46 package and the defense does.

I`m tired of the FEMA-bashing. All you hear is that FEMA didn`t do enough. What people don`t understand is that FEMA had a game plan, but when the devastation was so widespread, their game plan kind of went out the window.

(But as they entered Rivage for the sixth time, Oliver braked heavily and Rachel less forcefully, her car bashing Bull`s from behind and sending it straight into the barriers.) Ollie braked really sharply and I didn`t, ... it was very unfortunate, and I`m devastated about what happened.

I don`t know if I want to stoop to his level and fire back. I took it personally. There`s no room for bashing other players.