Play Quotes

I always feel pressure. If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

I don't think it's about who you play, I think it's about who you are.

I like honesty and fair play.

The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

I want girls to hear my music and want to play it again because it made their hearts feel good.

If you lose a game, everyone asks why this player didn't play. If we win, nobody asks.

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

I play how I feel. I don't have a set way of playing. I get going, looking to create danger.

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

Whips and chains, handcuffs, smack a little body up with my belt. Scream, help play my game, dracula man, I'll get my fangs.

We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.

That's the mentality - don't just play it, win it.

I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

The dream is you never giving up on your story because no one else can play your part.

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.

I learned how to play hard to get (push and pull) from my teacher Kwon Jiyong.

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

Once you put in all the work pre-practice and post-practice and see it in a game and see it in play, that's a great feeling.

Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had to play another in his place.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.

Zeroth law: You must play the game First law: You can't win Second law: You can't break even Third law: You can't quit the game.

That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.

I've got to play in front of people. If I'm not moved, how can they be moved.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play