Play Quotes - Page 288

After the NBA and ABA merged, players could come out after high school. Still, there were only a few cases prior to Kevin Garnett coming out in 1995, so Nike and the other companies were only involved in the college game.

Put your ego aside and play as a team.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

I need to work on defensive play and being consistent.

It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

I play with children so that I can learn from them.

What I'm really excited about is that continued challenge to create things that gamers of all experiences can play.

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

The cello looks like a woman to me. And, you know, the curves. And so I am in a way, and it's funny to admit this, I am sexually attracted to the cello, the curves really get me. So as I watched him play, you know, Yo Yo Ma is sort of making love to a beautiful woman.

Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)

I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with.

It doesn't take long to play with those guys. They're so good, they really help you out in all areas of the game and make it easy on you.

John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well.

You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't just have to walk around and play golf or do nothing... It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.

I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.