Playing Quotes

• (The fielders are) just sitting out there playing jacks on the carpet, and the next thing you know the ball gets hit to them, and they can't get to it because you've put them to sleep.

  

  Joe Mays
  • Sleep
  • Playing
  • Carpet

• I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.

  

  Robby Takac Goo Goo Dolls
  • Music
  • Man
  • Guitar

• Playing in the Neurotic Outsiders with John Taylor was great. A lot of pussy every time we played a gig. So many chicks. It was, like, 'Wow, John, really? So this is what it was like, huh?' And there would be like a couple guys with mohawks and a guy with, like, a jean jacket coming in to see me and Jonesy!

  

  Duff McKagan Guns N' Roses
  • Playing
  • Guys
  • Gig

• I can see both positives and negatives to playing on Thursday.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Playing
  • Negatives
  • Positives

• I remember playing the Royal Albert Hall, and a guy would say, 'Ten minutes to stage time,' and I'd get so nervous.

  

  Mike Joyce Buzzcocks
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• What he's doing now, he has proven he could do that over his whole career. He has worked hard to get back and now he's happy, healthy and used to playing the way he always has.

  

  Chris Chambliss
  • Career
  • Hard
  • Playing

• I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.

  

  Will Champion Coldplay
  • Good
  • Stuff
  • Playing

• It's a different feeling; I like touring and playing on the road better, but recording has its good spots.

  

  Robbie Merrill Godsmack
  • Road
  • Recording
  • Touring

• We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Want
  • Playing
  • Realize

• When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Playing
  • Act

• Lots of bands spend years and years before they hit it. For us it was overnight. It was two years - three at the most - from when the band started playing; and it wasn't like we worked so hard. It was a fun thing to do.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Fun
  • Years
  • Bands

• I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Ukulele
  • Banjo
  • Mandolin

• Women were very, very good at 'Pong'. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing 'Pong' was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Woman
  • Suffering
  • Choices

• I'm the same guy. I'm trying make sure I focus on what I'm supposed to be focusing on which is playing ball. I'm trying all out. Everything else is just B.S.

  

  Carlos PenaVega Big Time Rush
  • Same
  • Supposed
  • Sure

• And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Noses
  • Paul
  • Chord

• When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Experience
  • Ensemble
  • Tight

• I didn't like what we did. You can't leave one country and head off to another and spend more time on the plane than training or playing.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Country
  • Training
  • Plan

• It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

  

  Michael Chiklis
  • Interesting
  • Actors
  • Someone

• As soon as I saw she was playing, winning matches, I just kind of shot a quick e-mail to her agent. Fortunately, I got the positive answer and I think the rest is history.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Winning
  • Playing
  • Matches

• I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Playing
  • Piano
  • Homework

• My rookie year, he helped me so much. Him and Don Perkins, the fullback that was ahead of me. Perk helped me a lot. I told him one time, I said, "Perk, you're helping me? I'm trying to beat you out.” He said, "Walt, I want to go to the playoffs. I want to go to the Super Bowl. If you're better than me, you oughtta be playing instead of me.” But I never was better than him. If he hadn't retired, I'd still be sitting on the bench.

  

  Walt Garrison
  • Better
  • Helped
  • Don Perkins

• Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

  

  Michael K. Powell
  • Person
  • Information
  • Necessary

• They could still be playing for all I know.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Playing

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