Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
Terry Pratchett

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

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Newman

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
James Caan

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
Vivien Leigh

So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.
Jose Mourinho

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.
Jose Mourinho

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
Serena Williams

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
Jesse Ventura

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

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

I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
Dan Marino

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.
Dan Marino

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.
David Beckham

I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.
David Beckham

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.
Terry Bradshaw

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
Billie Jean King

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.
Floyd Abrams

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
Gwendolyn Brooks