Play Quotes - Page 170

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

I wouldn't play in Minnesota unless my career was at an end and I had to go to Minnesota to play the game.

I've had times where I walked up to the line, where I know the play, but don't know what to do.

Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

It is a great honor to be inducted into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. When you honor me with this distinction, you really honor the players who put me there. All of the honors I receive became a reality only through the contributions of my players. In addition to myself, you also honor my family and the Dodger organization. I accept this recognition with pride and gratitude.

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it’s as if the audience—dancing, singing to the refrains, laughing—is part of the band.

I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no one else really wanted to sing. So I learned how to sing and I wrote the songs, so I tended to get the most attention.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement

We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing

We want playing our games to entertain people on many different levels. Deeper down, I want to make a connection with the player, and it's the way, to me, of saying to the person playing the game that they're not alone in the world.

Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.

Boris [Johnson] follows the Bullingdon playbook: you break it and someone else has to fix it.

People thought it was asinine for me to change my swing after I won the Masters by 12 shots. ... Why would you want to change that? Well, I thought I could become better. If I play my best, I'm pretty tough to beat. I'd like to play my best more frequently, and that's the whole idea. That's why you make changes. I thought I could become more consistent.

For years Paul Scholes has been one of the best players in the Premiership. He's incredible. He has always been under-rated throughout his career. He's a team player, a one and two-touch footballer who makes good decisions on the pitch and makes his team play.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Play the charts like the Beatles.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

God blessed me to play football.