Playing Quotes

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
Casey Stengel

Crazy, Thinking, Baseball

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Family, Time, Possible

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
Lena Dunham

Time, Positive, Anyone

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
Marilyn vos Savant

Famous, Past, Artists

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.
Jerry Garcia

Live, Important, Start

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova

Life, Strength, Experience

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.
Maria Sharapova

Work, Live, Hard

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
Nicolas Cage

Crazy, Character, Different

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
Wayne Gretzky

Age, Game, Baseball

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Time, Everything, Play

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
Dimebag Darrell

Bored, Same, Musicians

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
Sylvester Stallone

Trying, Play, Golf

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Life, Game, Worth

I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.
Susan Orlean

Trying, Thought, After

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
John Mayer

Music, Happen, Somebody

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
David Duchovny

Life, Future, Past

Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.
David Duchovny

Work, Game, Mean

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.
Herman Cain

May, Give, Fact

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.
Amanda Seyfried

Good, Through, Emotions

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.
Chad Smith

Time, Good, Cool

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.
Robert Falcon Scott

Game, Light, Reason

I just like playing with makeup and clothes - so I really don't feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it's up to you to break them.
Kesha

Rules, Break, Makeup

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
Jack Nicholson

Time, Else, Wanted

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.
Layne Staley

Started, Singing, Drums

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
Robert Collier

Forward, Cannot, Stand

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
Nigel Kneale

Truth, Honesty, Stories

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.
Eric Cantona

Football, Wanted, Act

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
Eric Cantona

Football, Done, Excited

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pete Rose

Baseball, Living, Steal

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.
Francesca Annis

Someone, Boring, Young

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