Play Quotes

Sex is God's joke on human beings.
Bette Davis

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
Frederick Buechner

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
Indira Gandhi

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
Richard P. Feynman

I always play women I would date.
Angelina Jolie

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
Angelina Jolie

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!”
Joe Strummer

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take .

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.
Hulk Hogan

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Salman Rushdie

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
Anthony Bourdain

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Lou Gehrig

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Ralph Ellison

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
Babe Ruth

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
Pele

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel Paige

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.
Liam Gallagher

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
Nina Simone

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
Ingrid Bergman

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
Larry Bird

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Ted Williams

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
Ted Williams

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
Pharrell Williams

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.
John Howard

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
Miles Davis

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Miles Davis

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.
Hank Aaron

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Jackie Robinson

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
Hank Aaron

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron