Play Quotes - Page 141

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me’s no joke.

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.

The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.

The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop.

I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10", 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast.

I think we all have a role to play in life.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

When I find something good, I stick to it for like a month. I'm usually late on like other stuff. Kendrick Lamar, I can play that often.

I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down.

The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. If they want to make contact, they would make contact; if not, they would save their energy and go elsewhere.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

It's always really cool when you get to play with someone who you like and they go out of their way to be nice to you; it's not just a 'oh I played with them but I didn't meet them' sort of situation, so shout out to those guys for being awesome.

As players and coaches, we all want to reach our goal. It's up to us to go out there and perform.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.