Peter Uihlein Quotes

I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I'm not big enough.

I have fans all around the world.

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned.

In Europe they love me. I travel so much, I change my passport twice a year because there aren't enough pages for all the places I go. Foreign countries invite me to come without a visa.

I have spent a lot of time out in Australia, and so I have a good little fan base out there.

I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Moving around a lot allows you to experience many different cultures and learn about the ways that different people in different parts of the country live, and it probably made me somewhat more adventuresome and allowed me to meet my future wife in Pensacola.

I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena.

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

It was good to travel to the other side of the world.

The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'

If you play the same club every week of every month, it's kind of boring. It's great that you can play one night in Brazil and one night in Japan, one night in Europe, and see the world. It's amazing what you see if you travel around the world.

I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.

With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.

Performing, not rehearsing, is a dancer's raison d'etre, and I've been lucky to 'etre' in some extraordinary places - Cuba, Paris, Mongolia. In particular, a two-week stint in Greece leaps to mind. We danced in the Acropolis's Herodes Atticus amphitheater, once a venue for gladiator spectacles.

I was one of the first Japanese to visit foreign lands and was able to do so only by stealth.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step.