Play Quotes - Page 75

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

I'm one of those guys where you know, I'm 23 years into this and I love the road more than ever and rather than whittling down my schedule to just play the major cities, I've actually expanded the amount of places that I go to because I want to see a bunch of stuff. You know, plan it as I can while I'm still young enough to travel.

You wouldn't have had to call a penalty on me, I would've called I on myself'. 9. “I'm the sole judge of my standards”. 10. “I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me like it bothers some people. You can outwork the best player in the world.

Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart.

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there. Absolutely astounding.

Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

Play and write music the way you want the world to be.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.

In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.