Play Quotes - Page 43

If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.

The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.

Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just...try.

I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality.

With the physical mindset I play the game with, I expect to get hurt.

He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.

As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.

The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, that she has made us like ill-taught piano students: we play our songs, but we never really hear them because our main concern is not to make music to avoid some flub that will get us in dutch.

I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.

They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.

Matchy-matchy is not for me. I don't want things to be too perfect. It's like pairing a matte top with a shiny skirt, so they play off each other. I want there to be relationships with texture and color, and sometimes it's more about the contrast that chimes.

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

I won't lie, I want to play in the Champions League and challenge for titles.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did.

Only a genius can play a fool.

Players know how to dribble, shoot and pass. The challenge is to teach them why they should do it a certain way, and when they should do it.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.