Play Quotes

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

We have taught a generation to feast and play but the times demand we fast and pray.

Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.

After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

I was born to play baseball.

First of all, never play macho man with the market. Second, never overtrade.

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play.

If you play with temptation do not expect God will deliver you

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

All work and no play is not good for the soul

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it.

It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach.

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.