Playing Quotes

• Like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Games
  • Rules
  • Making

• As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.

  

  Carl Everett
  • Baseball
  • Playing
  • Yankees

• It's wonderful being a mother playing anyway.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Mother
  • Playing
  • Wonderful

• When you're away from the course, obviously things are a little bit different. But when you're at the course, you're playing, you're grinding. Today, I'm preparing. I have enough on my mind out there trying to place my shots, and what angles I need to have, or where I need to be for certain pins, and stuff like that.

  

  Earl Woods
  • Different
  • Shots
  • Grinding

• Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

  

  Stephen Hough
  • Suffering
  • Playing
  • Musicians

• People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Building
  • Grow

• Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.

  

  Gail Ann Dorsey
  • Wanted
  • Neighborhood
  • Integrated

• Whenever you get traded out and you are playing for a winning team, it's always good.

  

  Steve Clevenger
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Playing

• When you are wearing the jersey that you love and are getting playing time, in the end, you value that much more than other things.

  

  Saul Niguez
  • Value
  • Wearing
  • Jersey

• I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

  

  Richard Roeper
  • Playing
  • Forms

• When I was in The Scream, I thought I'd be around for 30 years playing with The Scream guys. Who knew I was gonna get a call from Motley?

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Playing
  • Guys
  • Scream

• You're always under pressure, that's what life is about. That is what playing international cricket or being a professional sportsman is.

  

  Alastair Cook
  • Playing
  • Pressure
  • Cricket

• I can't keep sitting on the bench and letting my life go on, smoking a cigar and not doing anything. It's not me. I want to be playing football.

  

  Luke Shaw
  • Want
  • Football
  • Playing

• We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • People
  • Band
  • Playing

• Everybody evaluates their own situation as far as playing this game.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Game
  • Playing
  • Evaluate

• You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique.

  

  Paul Coffey
  • Team
  • Learn
  • Playing

• Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Choice
  • Playing

• I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

  

  Mike Stoller
  • Ability
  • Wanted
  • Piano

• I never really liked Minor Threat. Actually, I kind of thought they sucked. And then Daniel came into practice one day and said, 'Oh, let's play a song it's called Minor Threat.' And I just thought, 'I don't want to play that fucking song!' And then I said, 'Yeah, I will do it.' And then we were playing it. And it's, like, grand and I ended loving this song and started listening to more of their stuff. I love them and they are great.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Song
  • Practice
  • Listening

• All those years of playing, I was scared to talk in front of a mike. I sang backup with Question Mark, and it gave me courage.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Courage
  • Playing
  • Scared

• I feel closer to playing, closer to being able to play. Last week, I couldn't.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Feel
  • Playing
  • Closer

• I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Playing
  • Guitar

• I like the idea of playing a historical detective.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Idea
  • Playing
  • Detective

• I like playing with a good crowd.

  

  Sergio Garcia
  • Playing
  • Crowd

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