Play Quotes

• When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.

  

  Gary Player
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Play

• You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

  

  Danilo Kis
  • Ends
  • Victim
  • Becoming

• The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Job
  • Play
  • Trench Kiss

• Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life.

  

  Emmanuel Petit
  • Way
  • Shows
  • Clean

• Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Golf

• Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Order

• Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Reality
  • Insubordination

• We're playing to get our quality of play where we think it needs to be and get some momentum going into the playoffs. We'd obviously also like to gain home ice and if we can do that, then mission accomplished.

  

  Walt Kyle
  • Quality
  • Mission
  • Playoffs

• When it's done, that's the right time. When it happens, I'm sure it will catch me off-guard and I'll be happy. And if it doesn't happen, I'll have to do what I have to do. I just want to put on the uniform and do what I do. It's the fans that make me play the way I play. When I get the energy out of right field, especially in the Yankees uniform, those fans make me do what I do. I couldn't have played with one arm in Colorado. You can't motivate me enough to do that. Only the Yankees fans bring that out of me.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Time
  • Done
  • Happy

• I told him before the play that if both men went to me, to go to the basket and get a good shot. Things didn't go the way we wanted tonight.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Tonight

• I do play a lot of Southerners because I grew up in the South, but they're still diverse.

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Still
  • Diverse
  • Southerners

• I thought I would turn the corner when I didn't play. It wasn't feeling that bad when I'd walk up stairs, so I thought it was getting better. Once I took one step out of the batter's box trying for a double, I couldn't do it. I don't have time to be waiting.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Play
  • I Think
  • Worthwhile

• You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Instruments
  • Know-How

• If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Able
  • Rights
  • Fairs

• We also have Loki Crichton in the mix so it doesn't take a mathematician to work out they won't all fit. But we will look at mixing it up a bit and possibly play Mils in the midfield at times. We'll just have to wait and see.

  

  Ian Foster
  • Play
  • Wait
  • Mathematician

• I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Live

• I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.

  

  Page Hamilton
  • Music
  • Kids
  • America

• I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

  

  Ben Webster
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Style

• It doesn't matter what we call it, it's still Robbie and I together playing 'Light My Fire' and 'Love Me Two Times.' John should come and play and let us celebrate and keep this music alive. Look, what do I say to the cynics? I would like to play with Jim Morrison again. But you know what? I can't call him. I'm sorry. He's dead. He's busy. He's in eternity.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Music
  • Alive
  • John

• That's why my wife doesn't play with me. I count her hand before she does.

  

  Ed Case
  • Play
  • Wife

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