Play Quotes - Page 16

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

All work and no play is not good for the soul

What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays sonatas, while another merely bangs away at "Chopsticks." The piano is not responsible. It's how you touch the keys that makes the difference. It's how you play what life gives you that determines your joy and shine.

To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.

After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.