Play Quotes - Page 57

If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player half of the time because you didn't get the ball once or twice. That can't sidetrack you. It's got to be 'I live for my defense, and my offense I'll get. But I can't let it affect my defense. Nothing affects my defense.'

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

It doesn't take any talent to play hard.

Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.

Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.

The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

As a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can't get every guy ready every night, you're going to struggle.

We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.

Every day when I get on the floor I give it my all and play because you never know what tomorrow holds.

To me makeup is a major accessory. It can change an outfit, it can make the outfit, it can be the outfit, and that's why I like to play with it.

They tell me that all men are equal in God's eyes, this player (Messi) makes you seriously think about those words.

You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.

Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay attention to paintings and sculptures and photo exhibits and ballets and plays. Don't let all this go unnoticed. Your world is shouting out to you, revealing something intrinsically glorious about itself. Listen carefully. Love art, the way art loves life.

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.