Play Quotes - Page 63

I can’t believe I was almost too chicken to play Captain America.

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him.

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music.

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.

I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.

Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.

Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League.

My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

I like honesty and fair play.

Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.

When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.

I could always hold a melody, but I was never like, I'm going to be a singer. So I'm able to use that when I write. I'm actually playing the beat with my voice. Instead of thinking about coming up with melodies, it's like filling in the instruments. So sometimes it's better to have beats with less melodies in them, because then I can play more with my vocals.