Play Quotes

"Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career"

Barack Obama, President

"I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

"In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action"

George P. Baker

"I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"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, Athlete

"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death"

George P. Baker

"Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it"

Jim Fiebig, Businessman

"I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient"

Helen Wills Moody, Athlete

"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"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand"

Edward Albee, Dramatist

"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do"

Edward Albee, Dramatist

"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth"

Edward Albee, Dramatist

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act"

Truman Capote, Novelist

"The best players will play. That's the way it will always be"

Larry Bird, Coach

"It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got"

Larry Bird, Coach

"Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"I don't play the tuba"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play"

Gary Gygax, Inventor

"I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group"

Gary Gygax, Inventor

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