Play Quotes - Page 40

I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

Successful people see an opportunity and they GO for it. They play bigger and go deeper into the circles of success. They don't hold back.

Ronaldo was my hero. I loved watching players like Zidane, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo, but Ronaldo was the best striker I've ever seen. He was so fast he could score from nothing and could shoot the ball better than anyone I've ever seen.

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England—I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!

The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream.

Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb.

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.

A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.