Play Quotes - Page 274

Players win games, and coaches win players.

The serve was invented so that the net could play.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates

It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away.

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character.

It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.

Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am neither benefactor nor philosopher, but just a human being, and my charities are the pleasantest expense I have on these journeys.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person that made waves. When you heard Jimi Hendrix you knew it was Jimi Hendrix, he introduced himself in his instrument... You know, many radio stations play records and a lot of the times they don't call out the names who you just listened to, but when they play Jimi Hendrix, you don't have to tell me, [you know] it's Jimi Hendrix.

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

If we want money we’ll go to Las Vegas, if we want an after party we’ll go to Miami but if we want to play for love, we still come to India!

When you're doing what's right, on and off the field, the Lord steps in and plays a part.