Playing Quotes

• The United States is actually playing catch up to China.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • United States
  • China
  • Catch Up

• I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Playing

• You're playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can't move... you can't breathe... because you're in over your head. Like quicksand.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Playing
  • Breathe
  • Quicksand

• You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Playing
  • Opponent

• I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Myself
  • Playing
  • Suppose

• When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

  

  Mick Mars Mötley Crüe
  • Way
  • Playing
  • Alcohol

• I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • America
  • Playing
  • Banjo

• Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time

  

  Chip Kelly
  • Coaching
  • Wherever
  • Big Time

• I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Playing
  • I Love
  • Classical Music

• Tragedy levels the playing field.

  

  Walker Hayes
  • Playing
  • Tragedy
  • Field

• Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Clubs

• My bandmate once pissed his pants when we were playing in Brazil - but we weren't embarrassed, we were proud.

  

  David Macklovitch
  • Embarrassed
  • Brazil
  • Bandmates

• I wasn't playing well, and I fought my swing forever, and I was sick of it, and I was getting worse and said, 'To hell with it'

  

  Curtis Strange
  • Sick
  • Well
  • Worse

• It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

  

  Sasha Jackson
  • Character
  • Playing
  • Qualifications

• I think in terms of a career trajectory, it's good for people to be reminded that, in spite of seeing me a million times a day on a show for ten years playing the same character, I'm an actor, and actors like to play different people.

  

  Simon Helberg
  • Character
  • Years
  • Actor

• When you get down like that, you use up so much energy to get back into the basketball game. Then you have to be perfect the rest of the way. And playing this game, there is no way you can be perfect, because this game is so hard.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Energy

• I think working with kids and seeing how kids are universally children - no matter what you do, they love playing on a bongo and they love drawing and they love playing - that is a great uniter.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Drawing
  • Seeing
  • Universally

• I enjoy playing and singing as much today as I ever did. I don’t have to work, but I do it because it’s rewarding personally. I could live if I couldn’t do it anymore, but I truly enjoy it, and will do it for another couple years at least.

  

  Buck Dharma Blue Öyster Cult
  • Singing
  • Enjoy
  • Playing

• You can't have a family when you're playing because you're away from home so much. So believe me, I won't be pitching forever. I won't make it to 300 wins or anything like that. No way.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Family
  • Home
  • Away

• In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Guitar
  • Bands
  • Florida

• I'm really looking forward to playing in Copenhagen again. Last time I stayed as long as I could, took pictures, signed autographs, and hung out until they through me out of the place!

  

  George Duke
  • Playing
  • Looking Forward
  • Copenhagen

• I know I am playing tomorrow. After that we'll see. The coach will decide something, I am sure.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Playing
  • Coach
  • Decide

• I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Voice
  • Audience
  • Exuberance

• The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.

  

  Scott Glenn
  • Hard
  • Playing
  • Flinch

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